IT Conversations: Audio Podcasts on Information Technology and B. Goodbye from IT Conversations Since it’s inception, IT Conversations has published over 3300 audio programs.
After ten years of operation and six years with me at the helm, all that is coming to an end. Locus Online Features: Cory Doctorow: Creative Commons. From Locus Magazine, November 2007 Since 2003, the Creative Commons movement has ridden a worldwide revolution in creativity and sharing, inspiring the authors of over 160 million copyrighted works to adopt a "some rights reserved" approach that encourages sharing, remix, and re-use of their works.
CC licenses come in a variety of flavors, and in many jurisdictional variants, but at root, they are simple to use and apply, and they bring great benefit to "audiences" and "creators" (and help to blur the details between these two crude categories). First, some background. Through most of its four-hundred-odd-year history, copyright has only applied to a special class of works, generally those created with the intention of commercial exploitation. Many governments — especially the US government — only granted copyright to authors who registered with a national library, depositing copies of each copyrighted work in the country's authoritative repository of important creative works.