Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>]

On 12 Apr 2004, at 01:37, Evan Prodromou wrote:

> If I can summarize: the deal is that the copyright holder sells their
> work to Creative Commons for $1. CC then licenses the work back to the
> copyright holder for 14 or 28 years. After that, assumably, the work
> is dedicated the public domain.

Founders' is good because it makes people aware of how badly copyright 
has slipped since the Statute of Anne. I do think it works better as a 
provocation than as an actual license, but it's good to have it there. 
Given a choice between founders and CC-BY-SA (for example), I'd go CC.

I do wonder why the license can't just say "after 14 years this work is 
public domain", surely that's doable if you date it?

- Rob.