About Creative Commons

Before taking this class, I did not know much about creative commons ("CC") . I think the basic idea of CC is good for ordinary people, like me. Unlike other IP rights such as patents or trademarks, copyright is familiar to ordinary people because we create something even if unwittingly, every single day, and we can obtain copyright anyhow without any registration. If we wish to protect our works, it is a nice idea to use CC licensing scheme rather than make a complicated license agreement, because it is simple and easy. Therefore, CC has a meaning for ordinary people. However, I have a little concern about CC. For not ordinary people, such as big companies who have already obtained copyright and would like to get profit from it, CC might not look attractive, because CC has no incentive for them. CC looks promoting free licensing without scheme collecting profit from contents users. Although big companies have a lot of copyrighted contents, maybe they will not join CC scheme because of this. Therefore, CC users will be limited to ordinary people. For further development of CC, it might be useful to think how to get contents holders into this scheme.