The New York Times has a piece on the meeting over this past weekend of a broad range of artists to discuss the “Creative Commons” type of copyright. Lawrence Lessig , a Stanford University law professor and one of the originators of the concept said, “We want to move away from a maximalist position to create a future in which creativity can occur in a protected space without taking away anyone’s rights.”
Since the introduction of the Creative Commons concept in 2003, some 145 million “creations” (including LISNews.org) have been registered. More than 100 million of those licenses have been issued in the last six months. Mr. Lessig said that blogs accounted for the largest number, followed by images and then music, although the video sector is growing.
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