Unlike the way based on traditional copyrights, Creative Commons (CC) seems to provide us with a flexible tool which may change the relationships between information and us. That is, we can use the copyrightable works easily and flexibly through the Internet. Especially, as to marks defined by CC, such as “CC BY” and “CC BY- ND”, it seems fairly easy for ordinary people to understand what they can use and how they can use it. On the other hand, copyright holders also can make them available to the public and get an opportunity to contribute to the public. This simple rule system may encourage more creative and also innovative works.
However, if a licensor finds trouble with his/her works, such as a breach of conduct, I am wondering whether or not the license agreement works for such applications or be enforceable to solve the problem. In that sense, we should watch this new scheme carefully, but I would like to support CC because I believe CC may be a mainstream tool concerning copyrightable works and CC may change traditional fixed ideas for copyrights in all senses.
Here is the web site which is Professor Lessing’s website. I am just curious who he is and found this website.
http://www.lessig.org/
Also, I found CEO of CC is Japanese, so I would like to post his site too.
http://joi.ito.com/
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