Creative Commons Creativity
Gina Telaroli December 10, 2007 | 1:35 pm EST

The awesome folks at Creative Commons are having an awesome photo contest - more information is here.Creative Commons is an organization that deals with the creative freedom of artists:

“Too often the debate over creative control tends to the extremes. At one pole is a vision of total control ” a world in which every last use of a work is regulated and in which “all rights reserved” (and then some) is the norm. At the other end is a vision of anarchy ” a world in which creators enjoy a wide range of freedom but are left vulnerable to exploitation. Balance, compromise, and moderation ” once the driving forces of a copyright system that valued innovation and protection equally ” have become endangered species.Creative Commons is working to revive them. We use private rights to create public goods: creative works set free for certain uses. Like the free software and open-source movements, our ends are cooperative and community-minded, but our means are voluntary and libertarian. We work to offer creators a best-of-both-worlds way to protect their works while encouraging certain uses of them ” to declare “some rights reserved.”

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