Information Research Weblog

Today's Guardian Online supplement includes a report on an interview with Lawrence Lessig - the founder of the 'Creative Commons' movement.

Briefly:

The Creative Commons is devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others to build upon and share.

and there is more about the mission at the Web site.

Creative Commons also has a Weblog - and the latest entry gives information on possible innovations in the nature of the license - specifically relating to educational use. This seems to me to a desirable innovation, but for one fact - that is, that education is increasingly seen as a business and students are paying significant sums of money not only to state-financed educational institutions, but to companies. The borderline between commercial use and educational use, therefore, is disappearing and I doubt if the two can be separated.

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The more observant readers of this Weblog will have noticed the Creative Commons badge at the bottom of the main page - to see what it means, click on the badge and a brief statement of the nature of the license will be delivered to your screen.