All Annotations of CC in Review: Lawrence Lessig on Compatibility | Creative Commons[Preview]

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• Art Libre license is perhaps the most famous
• BBC’s Creative Archive licenses
• Free Software Foundation’s GNU Free Documentation License is a copyleft license designed initially for software documentation, but used most prominently by the Wikipedia project.
• perhaps the most important feature of digital content is that from a technical perspective such a project is now trivial. Technology now gives creators — at a relatively tiny cost — the ability to take sounds and images from the culture around us and remix them to produce something new
• Will the licenses that “free” content permit that free content to be remixed?
• Wikipedia, for example,
• requires derivatives be licensed under the FDL only
• ame is true of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license that governs Opsound content, as well as much of the creativity within Flickr.