What is it?

Lawrence Lessig

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“Generally speaking, copyright in any form,
including CC, doesn't fit in too well with Asian
ideas of knowledge, since it enables those
controlling knowledge and information over the
rest, and we find it impossible to emerge winners
in this game.
It is a colonial law, not meant to serve the
interest of the people of those parts of the globe
that are not ahead in the information race!”
--Fredrick Noronha, Indian Journalist

And yet…

A lot of good things get
made with

Like this slideshow

Cory Doctorow (author)

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Image sources by slide number - all accessed July 29, 2009
1. https://courses.lis.illinois.edu/user/index.php?contextid=58777 and http://creativecommons.org/about/downloads
2. http://creativecommons.org/about/downloads
3. http://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/2072756557/
4. http://www.mdepatents.com/images/197px-Red_copyright.bmp and http://creativecommons.org/about/downloads
5. http://creativecommons.org/about/downloads
6. http://creativecommons.org/about/downloads
7. http://farm1.static.flickr.com/39/99852849_5ba906053f_o.jpg
8. http://www.flickr.com/photos/olivander/3038572409/ and http://creativecommons.org/about/downloads
9. http://www.flickr.com/photos/james_crowley/56261028/
10. http://www.mdepatents.com/images/197px-Red_copyright.bmp
11. http://www.flickr.com/photos/f__k/2412719870/
12. http://creativecommons.org/about/downloads and http://www.flickr.com/photos/karen_cb/3015990888/
13. http://creativecommons.org/about/downloads
14. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeco/3931151/
15. http://electexiles.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/darth-vader1.jpg
18. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pkeleher/2027188708/sizes/m/
19. http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitalgrace/90705344/
21. http://www.flickr.com/photos/hi-phi/12219859/
22. http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuartpilbrow/2942333106/
26. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3131/2725208424_c0c056fb1b.jpg and http://educaweb20.wikispaces.com/file/view/logo_slideshare3.jpg
27. http://www.screamingink.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/200px-nin-logo.png and http://www.perfectporridge.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/radiohead-logo.jpg and
http://www.groupereflect.net/blog/logo_jamendo.jpg and http://jayelaudioblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/gt_feed-the-animals.jpg
28. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/5/53/20060223003153!Wikipedia-logo-en-big.png
30. http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Cory_Doctorow