Lawrence Lessig是哈佛大学法学院Roy L. Furman法学教授，哈佛大学Edmond J. Safra伦理中心主任。在重新加入哈佛大学之前，莱斯格是斯坦福大学法学院和芝加哥大学的一名教授，他在那里创立了该校的互联网和社会中心。他曾是第七巡回上诉法院法官理查德·波斯纳和美国最高法院法官安东宁·斯卡利亚的书记员。Lessig是创作共用委员会、MAPLight、勇敢新电影基卡塔尔vs葡萄牙分析金会、柏林美国学院、AXA研究基金和iCommons.org的成员，也是阳光基金会的顾问委员会成员。他是美国艺术与科学学院和美国哲学协会的成员，并获得了许多奖项，包括自由软件基金会的自由奖，Fastcase 50奖，并被评为《科学美国人》的前50位远见者之一。Lessig拥有宾夕法尼亚大学经济学学士学位和管理学士学位，剑桥大学哲学硕士学位和耶鲁大学法学博士学位。
It’s hard to believe that it was 13 years ago today that we shipped the very first version of the CC license suite. Before then, without the CC licenses, the barriers to collaborating in a global commons were too high. The benefits of shared educational content or scientific research, or paving the way for creators …Read More“Happy Birthday CC license suite!”
Help build the next era of sharing online.Make a donation to Creative Commons. 12 years ago today, we launched the first Creative Commons license suite. The internet was changing the way people share, and changing what it meant to be a creator. But copyright law hadn’t caught up. The Net was making sharing easy; the …Read More“Happy birthday, Creative Commons”
我非常高兴地欢迎Ryan Merkley担任知识共享协议(Creative Commons)的新任首席执行官。卡塔尔vs葡萄牙分析这是该组织历史上的一个重要时刻。经过十一年的发展，CC授权已经成为全球公认的分享创意作品的权威工具。Millions across the …Read More“A message from Larry: A new CEO and a challenge to the CC community”
Lawrence Lessig and Aaron Swartz (2002) / Rich Gibson / CC BY Friends and Commoners, It is with incredible sadness that I write to tell you that yesterday, Aaron Swartz took his life. Aaron was one of the early architects of Creative Commons. As a teenager, he helped design the code layer to our licenses, …Read More“Remembering Aaron Swartz”
Dear Fellow Creative Commoner: A week ago, Japan suffered its most devastating earthquake and tsunami in modern history. This disaster has left thousands of people dead, many others injured and displaced, and an estimated 1.5 million more without access to power. Furthermore, the compounding catastrophe with the country’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant will affect …Read More“Please do what you can to help Japan”
As we come to the end of this year’s fundraising campaign, I asked the organizers to let me write you to tell you about an extraordinary birthday present that Creative Commons received on its 8th birthday last Thursday. You probably know that for the past two years, Creative Commons has been incredibly fortunate to have …Read More“Welcoming Cathy Casserly as the new CEO of Creative Commons”
Last week the Wikimedia Foundation board took an important step toward giving Wikipedia the right to choose to migrate to a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. Credit goes to the Wikimedia Foundation and Free Software Foundation for having the wisdom and foresight to enable this progress. However, the real work has just begun. As Wikipedia founder …Read More“Wikipedia and Creative Commons next steps”
你好，CC社区，我写信告诉你一个更新，我们正在建议我们的当前版本的许可证(3.0)。因为更新的目的是简单地明确一些我们打算许可证的意思，这个版本将编号为3.01。As you know, in February 2007, after 9 months of public …Read More“Version 3.01 – Public Discussion Launched”
Five years ago this December, we launched Creative Commons. At a party with music by DJ Spooky, and video endorsements by John Perry Barlow and (the late) Jack Valenti, we began to implement a gaggle of legal hacks to let the copyright system better reflect the views of many artists, authors, educators, and scientists. Some …Read More“Creative Commons @ 5 years”
Today we are retiring two of the Creative Commons licenses — the stand alone Developing Nations license, as well as one of the three Sampling licenses we offer. The reasons for these retirements are both practical and principled. The practical reason is simple lack of interest: From the start, Creative Commons has promised to keep …Read More“Retiring standalone DevNations and one Sampling license”