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Public_Domain:
Creative Commons
"A New Direction for Intellectual Property"
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posted by
steve
on Monday May 13, @05:15PM
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A NEW DIRECTION FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
A group of law and technology scholars are setting up a nonprofit company
that will develop ways for artists, writers and others to easily designate
their work as shareable. The firm's founders argue that recent expansions in
intellectual property law could stifle creativity. The new company, called
Creative Commons, will work on clearly identifying material that is meant to
be shared. By making it easier to place material in the public domain,
Creative Commons hopes to encourage more people to do so. "It's a way to
mark the spaces people are allowed to walk on," said Lawrence Lessig,
leading intellectual property expert. Lessig will take a partial leave from
Stanford Law School to serve as chairman of Creative Commons.
[SOURCE: The New York Times; AUTHOR: Amy Harmon]
(http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/13/technology/13FREE.html?ex=1021953600&en=c
a323ab879f0cd03&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVER)
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