Creative Commons..

For the past one year we have been sharing our office space on 543 Howard Street with another non-profit organization called Creative Commons. All I knew for the longest time was they were an offshoot from Stanford, a bunch of Stanford Law School graduates who had gotten together to do some ground-breaking work. Today we had an inter-entity meeting where each entity show cased their work. We had our usual Chandler demo from the OSAF side. It was quite interesting to hear about Creative Commons, a non-profit that offers flexible copyright for creative work in music, literature, art etc. While regular copyright is based on "all rights reserved", creative commons license allows for "some rights reserved". This allows fledgling artists to share, collaborate and create new stuff with their and other's work. Recently Yahoo! announced beta version of the new Yahoo! search for Creative Commons and our friends at Mozilla have also added support in the latest version of Firefox to display CC licenses of sites as you go thru them. So next time you see the CC license on a website, remember our friendly folks in San Francisco.