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Hilary Rosen Loves Creative Commons

Posted by timothy on from the free-to-express-herself dept.

13.7Billion Years writes "Former RIAA CEO Hilary Rosen has written a piece in Wired extolling the virtues of Lawrence Lessig's Creative Commons licensing, providing such juicy tidbits as 'I'm still cynical about its origins, but I've come to love Creative Commons,' and 'the industry ought to embrace Creative Commons as an agile partner providing tools for new ways to do business.' She's not quite ready to pooh-pooh the current all-or-nothing licensing regime just yet but this sounds like good progress."

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  1. Sole Stated Purpose of Copyright by Roger_Wilco · · Score: 5, Informative

    It has nothing to do with protecting anybody, but only encouraging progress. See Article I, section 8, clause 8 of the US constitution:

    Congress has the power to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

  2. Re:Pooh-pooh? by Synonymous+Yellowbel · · Score: 4, Informative
    I am sorry but never in my life did I encounter the expression pooh-pooh, can someone please enlighten me?

    It basically just means to dismiss, disparage or criticise (depending on the context).

    steve

  3. Re:Why is she saying this? by LostCluster · · Score: 4, Informative

    who's paying the bitch now?

    The answer to that is on page 2 of the article...
    Hilary Rosen, former chair and CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America, is a business and political commentator on CNBC and an adviser to media and technology companies.

    Basically, she's a professional pundit now.