Creative Commons is not anti-copyright
Few days ago, Joi Ito wrote:
It appeared that people had a VERY bad image of Creative Commons. For some reason they thought that CC was trying to force people to share and was anti-copyright. I explained the CC was built upon copyright and was trying to help artists choose their copyright.
Today Dave Winer wrote:
Emailing with Larry Lessig today, he said something surprising about Creative Commons. “No author gives up his copyright when putting content under a CC license. A CC license is just permissions given up front. [...]
If i don’t misunderstand this (correct me if i get Dave’s point totally wrong), he finds it surprising that CC is not about giving up copyright . This is something i as well didn’t quite get for a long time, it was only when i heard Lawrence Lessig and Joi Ito speak about CC that i finally understood this. Even though CC’s done some tremendous work to build an identity that caters not only to geek and open source circles, i think there are still a lot of misconceptions about Creative Commons and i wonder what else can be done to make these points more clear?