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Creative Commons recently celebrated its seventh anniversary, capping an impressive year of success for the organization, including the launch of CC0, our new public domain tool, migration of Wikipedia to a CC license, and compelling new implementations — from CC-aware discovery in both Google and Yahoo! image search, to ad… Read More
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Creative Commons is the way to share knowledge. One of the biggest CCer's is Wikipedia.
Commercial enterprises and corporation's massively funded legal machines rape the the little guy and small businesses everyday, suing them into bankruptcy and buying and killing innovation. If the laws don't suit them, they have the money and power to change them. The rest of us our truly at their mercy. Creative Commons is a way to fight back against a system that was built to protect the individual, but has been perverted to service only the powerful elite corporate mob.
I use Creative Commons licensing for my photographs, I think it is a very well-conceived way to allow for both non-commercial sharing of the images and to alert commercial enterprises that there is copyright protection.
I use Creative Commons license in my photos, and I prefer to listen music and use software with CC license - "Some Rights Reserved."
Intel Corporation is suing my small company into bankruptcy in a vicious and unconstitutional bid to secure the common-use English language word intel as its private property! This word belongs to us all!
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