Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Sigmascape1 AT cs.com]

Sad but true. The general public simply doesn't understand copyright laws, 
and I am not talking about in-depth knowledge. I am talking about basic 
stuff. In some ways, I can attribute this general lack of knowlegge to simply 
not caring. It's kind of like people not caring that when they go to a 
computer store (your average Circuit City/Best Buy/Office Depot), they only 
have one option in operating systems. No alarms go off in their heads, no 
panic, no questioning why this is the ways things are. It's apathy like this 
that is keeping laws like the DMCA alive and well.

I have to say that Professor Lessig, and a few others, are helping to 
redefine what some may see as copyrights and the alternatives, but more needs 
to be done. It is sad that the American people (and the world at large) are 
being force-fed laws that extend the length of copyrights, tighten the grip 
of copyright holders and hold back intellectual advancements all because of 
bad policy-making.

What do you guys think? Am I right that more education for the general public 
is needed? 

Thanks,

Mitch



>Message: 2
>Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:01:13 -0500 (EST)
>From: "Greg London" <email AT greglondon.com>
>Subject: Re: "Creative Commons in the News"
>To: "Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts"
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>Branko Collin said:
>> "Creative Commons in the News"
>> http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/15/2145245
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>Wow. I read some of the replies further down and it
>is clear to me that people just don't get copyright.
>Even basic, all rights reserved, copyright, let alone
>spectrum of rights copyright.
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>palmpilot->todolist->"educate planet about copyright"
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