Boing Boing: Twelve years ago, Creative Commons made a big bet. We saw that the internet had transformed the ways in which people create, distribute, and consume content. And we believed that what it meant to be a creator was going to shift in a big way.
We built a set of licenses that creators could use to unlock their works, giving everyone permission to reuse, republish, and adapt them. The public responded, sharing millions of creative works under CC licenses -- everything from photography to music to scholarly research and data.
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It is really exciting to see how well Creative Commons is thriving. I have put most of my internet presence up under a Creative Commons license because I believe strongly in the ability to learn things for free. The internet is a great medium for sharing knowledge and information, and unrestricted use of that knowledge and information is what allows growth to occur. Technology we know today, like smartwatches and consumer 3D printing, would not have been possible without the open source and creative commons type sharing of ideas on the internet.
Creative Commons has always been a great idea, and I'm glad it is continuing to grow in a positive direction. We share so much information via the internet today. When you try and put a price tag on things, it becomes less accessible. On the other side of this, that price tag is a big part of what allows companies to maintain profit. Information itself should be free, but things like texts and softwares are a gray area. We are becoming such a web based society, and making profits in other places is becoming extremely difficult. I think the challenge industries are facing now, and will face increasingly in the future, is how to distribute information that allows people to grow while still allowing themselves to grow comfortably.
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