Restarting
You know how it is: you go to update your blog with a new post and notice something is slightly broken, and really you should update your WordPress installation more than once every few years. So you...
View ArticleCC and the real and false “sharing economy”
Adapted from a post written to Creative Commons staff, on strategy. — CC is a project with a grand mission, and one that good infrastructure is necessary to help create. While the licenses are the...
View ArticleWhere to go from here
I’ve just recently had my last day at Creative Commons, where I worked as counsel for almost three years. I was hired early in the 4.0 drafting process (it is only half a joke that it was easier for...
View ArticleWhat happens to the CC licenses if something happens to CC?
A thought prompt from a post to the Wikimedia mailing list: how likely is it that Creative Commons fails, and if so, what happens to Wikimedia? The Wikimedia projects use the Creative Commons licenses...
View ArticleWhy Creative Commons uses CC0
My last blog post for Creative Commons just went up today: why CC uses its own CC0 legal tool to release the text of its licenses into the public domain. You can read it there. (It’s something I’m...
View ArticleWhen better is worse: a comment on DRM
I wrote a post for the Day Against DRM for Defective by Design. You can read it there (and should read others’ essays also!). Republishing here: Everyone knows how to recognize cartoon villains. They...
View ArticleThis Week in Law
OK, actually many weeks ago in law, because I am a terrible blogger. I was a guest on This Week in Law #303 thanks to the cajoling of my friend and former colleague Sarah, who is a co-host of the show...
View ArticleUnderstanding other people
Sometimes I think I might understand a few other people, and then I try to figure out what they do and don’t think is funny. Greg does not understand why a picture of Han Solo labeled “Keep Han in...
View ArticleDigital Media and Library Copyright talk notes
(These are notes from my presentation at the Library Freedom Project‘s Digital Rights in Libraries unconference, cleaned up into a readable format; meant to accompany the slides. I would not consider...
View ArticleGood Enough: why I use the imperfect CC licenses
My former colleague Elliot blogged a recent conversation he had on Twitter with someone about using a CC license vs. the GAL. Which license to choose is a common discussion topic, and it seems...
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