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| + | |Mainurl=http://creativecommons.org | ||
| + | |Tag=open licenses,licenses,licensing | ||
| + | |Organization Type=nonprofit | ||
|Status=good | |Status=good | ||
|Open or Free Statement=yes | |Open or Free Statement=yes | ||
|License provider=CC | |License provider=CC | ||
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| + | Creative Commons is a Massachusetts-chartered 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable corporation. | ||
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| + | Too often the debate over creative control tends to the extremes. At one pole is a vision of total control — a world in which every last use of a work is regulated and in which “all rights reserved” (and then some) is the norm. At the other end is a vision of anarchy — a world in which creators enjoy a wide range of freedom but are left vulnerable to exploitation. Balance, compromise, and moderation — once the driving forces of a copyright system that valued innovation and protection equally — have become endangered species. | ||
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| + | Creative Commons is working to revive them. We use private rights to create public goods: creative works set free for certain uses. Like the free software and open-source movements, our ends are cooperative and community-minded, but our means are voluntary and libertarian. We work to offer creators a best-of-both-worlds way to protect their works while encouraging certain uses of them — to declare “some rights reserved.” | ||
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| + | —Creative Commons | ||
Revision as of 19:44, 14 April 2008
Creative Commons is a Massachusetts-chartered 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable corporation.
Too often the debate over creative control tends to the extremes. At one pole is a vision of total control — a world in which every last use of a work is regulated and in which “all rights reserved” (and then some) is the norm. At the other end is a vision of anarchy — a world in which creators enjoy a wide range of freedom but are left vulnerable to exploitation. Balance, compromise, and moderation — once the driving forces of a copyright system that valued innovation and protection equally — have become endangered species.
Creative Commons is working to revive them. We use private rights to create public goods: creative works set free for certain uses. Like the free software and open-source movements, our ends are cooperative and community-minded, but our means are voluntary and libertarian. We work to offer creators a best-of-both-worlds way to protect their works while encouraging certain uses of them — to declare “some rights reserved.”
—Creative Commons
