Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>]

On 14 Nov 2004, at 10:28, Daniel Carrera wrote:

> We are looking at how to modify this to include the CC.  One idea is to
> say "if you buy this book I'll give it to you under this CC license".

One problem is that once you give someone the work under a CC license, 
it's "out of the bottle". That is, they can give it to as many people 
as they like under the terms of the CC license.

I recommend you look at Cory Doctorow's experience releasing work under 
a CC license. It seems to work best when you look on CC'ing the work as 
a form of advertising or a way of building community and interest 
around the work.

http://www.craphound.com/down/archives/2004_02.php#000117
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,57152,00.html

- Rob.