{"id":362,"date":"2005-06-26T02:03:29","date_gmt":"2005-06-26T06:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/benadida\/2005\/06\/26\/creative-commons-is-kicking-butt\/"},"modified":"2005-06-26T02:03:29","modified_gmt":"2005-06-26T06:03:29","slug":"creative-commons-is-kicking-butt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/2005\/06\/26\/creative-commons-is-kicking-butt\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Commons is Kicking Butt"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I attended Creative Commons’s iCommons summit today (photographic proof<\/a>). As I watched the presentations, looked around at the more than 80 representatives from the 70 countries that are now taking part in Creative Commons, I realized a simple fact that has snuck up on me: Creative Commons<\/a> is kicking some serious butt.<\/p>\n

There are now 15,000,000 documents distributed under a CC license, which is almost 0.2% of the Google index. The number of CC-licensed documents is currently growing at an 80% quarterly rate. As Neeru said when she showed the pie graph: the amazing thing is that you can see<\/b> the Creative Commons share on a web-wide pie graph.<\/p>\n

What’s most amazing to me is the rapid success of CC’s international expansion. While the US effort had the novelty of the movement and the blog early-adopter phenomenon to jumpstart it, a lot of these international efforts are making significant headway with far fewer resources, far less press, far more complicated copyright issues (moral rights anyone?), and far less low-hanging fruit.<\/p>\n

This is now a real, world-wide movement, the likes of which I have never experienced. A movement of people who believe that there should be some kind of middle-ground between extreme DRM control and total public domain. A movement of people who want to create a new ecosystem of sharing, because they know deep in their hearts that sharing (some) culture and science freely is the most important trend we have to reassert as a generation.<\/p>\n

I could not be more proud of the fact that I play a tiny role in this huge effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I attended Creative Commons’s iCommons summit today (photographic proof). As I watched the presentations, looked around at the more than 80 representatives from the 70 countries that are now taking part in Creative Commons, I realized a simple fact that has snuck up on me: Creative Commons is kicking some serious butt. There are now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ben\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}