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Angsuman Chakraborty

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Creative Commons License - Solution Looking for a Problem? Posted: Jul 21, 2005 10:25 AM
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Columnist John C. Dvorak raises several interesting concerns about Creative Commons Initiative. Dubbed Creative Commons, this system is some sort of secondary copyright license that, as far as I can tell, does absolutely nothing but threaten the already tenuous "fair use" provisos of existing copyright law. This is one of the dumbest initiatives ever put forth [...]

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Kelly R. Denehy

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Re: Creative Commons License - Solution Looking for a Problem? Posted: Jul 21, 2005 12:36 PM
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Neither you nor Dvorak apparently understands Commons. It's actually pretty simple. Its intent is to provide something in between normal copyright protection and public domain. It allows an artist/author the ability to relinquish some of his/her rights (whereas putting a work in the public domain gives up *all* rights).

One example of the problem it solves is "how do I give away my work for non-commercial use without having to pay an IP lawyer $1000?"

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