CC License and its goal

Creative Commons was started in 2001 with the goal of introducing the equal balance between innovation and protection. The group proclaims that its ends "are cooperative and community-minded, but its means are voluntary and libertarian." The group has developed a Web application that assists people in dedicating their works to the public domain or allows them to retain their copyrights while licensing them for no charge for specified purposes based on certain conditions. I think it does appear that Creative Commons is offering the flexible copyright options it envisioned at the beginning. In addition, the recent explosive growth of Creative Commons licenses seems to be successful.
However, as always, time will tell whether it will inspire and bring the equal balance between them as stated above. Moreover, I think we do need more time to observe and evaluate it.