[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dear Filter readers, > > We're writing to alert you to the launch today of > Creative Commons, a new web-based enterprise that assists > creators in extending certain uses of their copyrighted > works to the public. Conceived by Eric Eldred > (Eldritch Press), Lawrence Lessig (Stanford), James Boyle > (Duke), Hal Abelson (MIT), Michael Carroll (Villanova) and > Eric Saltzman (Berkman Center), Creative Commons is designed > to encourage and enable the sharing and use of creative works > on the Internet. The goal: to combine the flexibility of > copyright law, the power of metadata tagging for permitted > uses, and Internet search capability to nurture a rich > public domain alongside traditional copyrights. > > Last May, the Berkman Center convened the first Creative > Commons meeting. The core question: How do we (literally) > give license to creativity on the Net? What are the legal > and technical barriers to building an IP conservancy? > (View the meeting archive at > <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/creativecommons/>.) > > "The intellectual property wars will continue to rage for > some time, and with particular ferocity in the digital > environment," says Saltzman, Executive Director of the > Berkman Center, who shepherded the project through its > development. "Creative Commons won't replace traditional > licensing schemes or end these battles, but we've laid > the cornerstone of a promising new alternate reality for > the use of creative works in digital form." > > After incubation at the Berkman Center and development at > Stanford, Creative Commons is now scheduled for unveiling > at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. (See > <http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/et2002/view/e_sess/2376>.) > > The website will go live at midnight tonight. Follow the > links below for more information, including the official > press release and press coverage by the New York Times > and the Associated Press. > > <http://www.creativecommons.org/news/may16.html> > <http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/13/technology/13FREE.html> > <http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52562,00.html> > > > ***** > > To unsubscribe from (or subscribe to) The Filter, please > visit: <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filter/subscribe> > > The Berkman Center for Internet & Society > at Harvard Law School > <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu> ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
