CC-Good approach!

I think Creative Commons is a good approach. Since not only professional creators but general people can become copyright owners, CC may be a good platform for us to think about not only protecting the copyright but utilizing it. For example, it is not so easy for me to publish my own book since I am not a famous author but just a student. However, I can upload my essay with CC license on the Internet, then some publishers or playwrights in the world might find my extraordinary talent, and utilize my works. Finally I might get a chance to become a world-wide author (just kidding). Thus, CC may have a role to offer people of the incentive of creation. In addition, CC may become a supplement as copyright law. CC license is much more flexible than to amend copyright law. Especially, legislation cannot perfectly follow the speed of technological development. Therefore, if CC license works well, it becomes a good tool for creators.

However, as a flipside of CC, there is a possibility that someone puts CC license marks on other’s works without authorization. In addition, unfortunately CC is not so common among general people. Since we are learning IP, we have a chance to know about CC. But I asked some of my friends outside of school- nobody knew it. Here, I think to promote the existence of CC is the very first step for it to become a successful system.

Here is the site you might find interests.http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/