Good approach to public

I think Creative Common (“CC”) is basically good approach to maintain appropriate balance between intellectual property and public.

Just as we cannot create something from nothing, so we cannot create intellectual property without prior art or public domain. Therefore, the balance of intellectual property and public use is vital to intellectual property system. However, in my opinion, when it comes to copyright system, copyright is too strong in comparison with the level of creative works. As long as Creative Common (“CC”) can encourage creators to dedicate their works to public and can at least make them easy to use, it helps weakening copyright. To facilitate creation of works, we need the abundant public domain. In fact, several years ago, certain world-renown composer

On the other hand, CC may encourage creators who have not known the details of copyright law to keep and enforce their copyrights. It may be against public domain and open source is more favorable approach.

This is my interesting topic. BBC has launched its experiment of CC. http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2009/04/bbc-launches-program-under-creative-commons-license.ars