Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Evan Prodromou <evan AT prodromou.name>]

On Mon, 2007-04-06 at 10:02 -0700, Lawrence Lessig wrote:

> There is  
> a strong movement to convince Creative Commons that our core licenses  
> at least permit the freedom to share a work noncommercially.
> 
> Creative Commons supports that movement. We will not adopt as a  
> Creative Commons license any license that does not assure at least  
> this minimal freedom -- at least not without substantial public  
> discussion. 

I think this is a bold move, and I'm glad to hear about it. I haven't
been personally worried about this, but I'm glad to know that source of
the main objection that has come from some potential natural allies of
CC has been eliminated.

I hope that those organizations and individuals take this opportunity to
do some outreach to CC.

-Evan

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Evan Prodromou <evan AT prodromou.name>

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