Lawrence Lessig, who founded the Creative Commons to enable open source content in ways that traditional copyright laws don’t, is now blogging and emailing a weekly explanation of the history of the Creative Commons and what it will mean to content producers and users. Here is Part I and Part II and Part III.
It is elementary stuff, but an excellent introduction to what he hopes will become of the growing use of the Creative Commons.
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Leonard Witt is the Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication at Kennesaw State University and the chief blogger of PJNet. His academic interests include public and citizen journalism and how to get citizens' voices heard. He has spent most of his professional career as an award-winning journalist.