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Friday, December 19, 2008

Thoughts on CC and the public domain

Mike Linksvayer, CC6+, Mike Linksvayer's blog, December 17, 2008.
... Retroactive copyright extension cripples the public domain, but there are relatively unexplored options for increasing the effective size of the public domain — instruments to increase certainty and findability of works in the public domain, to enable works not in the public domain to be effectively as close as possible, and to keep facts in the public domain. [Creative Commons] is pursuing all three projects, worldwide. I don’t think any other organization is placed to tackle all of these thorny problems comprehensively. ...