Sticks and Stones

I’ve been using CreativeCommons to license my creations ever since I started podcasting in 2004. I think copyright is flat out dead. That doesn’t mean you’re allowed to go running rampant across the internet and violate everything by stealing, it just means that we need a new solution.

I like CreativeCommons because it is in effect a ‘grant’. I am granting you, the right to share and/or remix my work as you see fit, with the condition that you don’t make money off it and with attribution (which means, put my name on it).

With CreativeCommons we can be freer in our usage of copyrighted materials. You’ll know how important this is if you’ve ever listened to Danger Mouse’s Grey Album. Without fair use at its full, and CreativeCommons licensing being used, art is limited. As a line-drawer, graphics designer, author, and blogger/podcaster/twitterer/etcetera I hate the idea that art would ever be limited.

I use the ‘Attribution Noncommercial 3.0 Unported’ license.