Creative Commons
Our mission is to facilitate participatory culture in a digital age by building a layer of reasonable, flexible copyright in the face of increasingly restrictive default rules
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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.
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." (Taken from the Creative Commons website, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licen... ) |
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Administrators
- Micah Tomblin (creator)
- Fred Benenson
- Melissa Reeder
- Allison







