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great cc news

April 13, 2003 9:20 AM - comments (2)

Dave has posted instructions for placing a Creative Commons license in the RSS feed generated from a Manila weblog.

This is great news. We have launched a campaign to build a layer of reasonable copyright law in a world increasingly defined by the extremes. CC tags -- marks expressing freedom beyond fair use -- is an important first step. Web logs have been the most important early adopters. With Movabletype, and now Userland, the most active and vibrant community on the web is beginning to show the rest something between the extremes.

Posted on April 13, 2003 9:20 AM | | technorati

Comments (2)

April 26, 2003 5:03 PM Clancy Ratliff:

I'm writing a paper about Weblogs with Creative Commons licenses. Your posts, as well as The Future of Ideas, have been a great help. I'm in John Logie's class, so I'll be talking to you online Monday night!

April 16, 2008 5:28 PM wow power leveling:

Though I certainly concur that the overall relative loss that the pre '72 copyright would be low, this analysis does skip over one important issue for the AOL-TW's of the world. The monopolistic use of a lot of works would significantly decrease. A good example at AOL-TW is the PD nature of Bugs Bunny cartoons. For folks like EMI, the Beattle early catalog would be available PD within 20 years instead of 60 or somesuch. I could imagine the Bowie Bonds being thrown asunder to some extent. Most troublesome for many are thinks like the Gershwin music publishing that would all of a sudden leave copyright.

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