I love the Creative Commons licenses. I use them for most of my photos and rely heavily on other people’s CC licensed material. As a result, my photos have ended up in all sorts of fascinating places — in magazines, on liquor bottles, and who knows where else! A great feature of CC licenses for [...]
...full articleCreative Commons is a type of license, which is somewhere between a traditional all-rights-reserved copyright and public domain. There are many variations of CC licenses, and they’re onto the 3.0 version of the licenses, so expect more soon. Generally CC licenses require Attribution, which is to say, you can do stuff with this content, so long as you say where you got it from. Often this is in the form of a hyperlink back to the original author’s website. Flickr popularized this by making CC licenses an option on all their photos. You’ll see that almost all of my photos…
...full articleA few weeks ago Lawrence Lessig showed up The Colbert Report to plug his new book, Remix. The interview itself is quite funny. Lessig talks a bit about how traditional copyright laws don’t make sense with modern technology. My favorite part is when Colbert dares the public to remix that interview with “a great dance beat” by saying he will be “very angry and possibly litigious” with Lessig periodically interjecting saying “I’m totally fine with that” and “I give you permission.” Of course, the great dance beats have been showing up. Lessig blogged about a bunch of them. The one…
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