On Creative Commons

Far be it from me to suggest that Cory Doctorow has an anti-copyright agenda, but there’s no doubt he’s the world’s leading proponent of the ‘give everything away free and reap the tangential rewards’ model of intellectual property protection. Creative Commons might work perfectly for a man who makes his living writing and speaking about how he gives things away free, but it’s not always the answer for musicians, authors and filmmakers who don’t have that particular sideline. And I say that as an author who just gave his last book away under a Creative Commons license and who isn’t going to go broke any time soon.

Interesting thoughts on the Creative Commons here. In fact, most people that do give their stuff away, tend to have other sources of income... I wonder in general, how others view the Creative Commons licenses.

I've always supported it, but also not in its most unrestricted form.