Sharing Creative Works: An Illustrated Primer
Creative Commons has just released a new comic explaining Creative Commons licenses for a general audience. Looks useful for the inevitable “what do you mean” questions about CC and for sharing with (indoctrinating) youngsters.
Normally I’d just throw something like this in my link log, but one of the things I’ve recently changed my mind about is giving in to the constant pressure to be fair and even-handed… even ambivalent. No longer! At least not all the time (I forgive you in advance if I haven’t struck you as being particularly impartial up until now).
Creative Commons– and addressing our horrific system of copyright and the subsequent gutting of the information commons thanks to crooked big media and other special interests– is one of my hobby horses.
This seems like a good place to point out my friend Robert’s very useful pointer: Ross Mayfield on Strong Opinions, Weakly Held.
[Linktribution: someone on my Twitter network that I can't locate now]
February 29th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Thanks! I’m looking forward to glancing through this. We offer REVIEW authors the option to use CC licenses for their text if they want to. Many don’t, and many remain confused. Maybe this will help.
February 29th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
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February 29th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
You utter rogue, unabashedly plugging folks trying to fight the good fight! Cad!!
For the record, my strongly held weak belief is not that CC is bad, just that it’s not good enough. But as “The perfect is the enemy of the good” I should probably keep my nay-saying to smaller circles. Just because I want something more radical doesn’t mean I don’t get thrilled at the success of fellow travelers.
Peace.
March 1st, 2008 at 3:17 am
Hello, Chris,
You’ve probably seen this already: Fair Use as explained by Disney characters.
Cheers,
Bill