Mark Pilgrim has an interesting take on the Creative Common’s license. The CC license is a copyleft framework that allows content creators to choose what rights to retain, and what to grant explicitly, rather than the all assuming copyright ©. The GPL was designed for source code. Applying it to other media runs the gamut of success stories. CC was intended for all possible works… from written text, images, video… anything that you would traditionally stick a © on....
I just finished reading Lawrence Lessig’s new book Free Culture, available under a Creative Commons License. You can download the PDF or buy it here. My senior year at Duke, I took a seminar on Information Technology and the Internet and how they affect different aspects of society. There, I first read Lessig’s Code. Before delving into the book, I want to start with a story. Back when I was building my first webpage (having just learned HTML, I believe the year was 1995, but I can’t remember at the moment), I wanted to create an image map for my site....