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Creative Commons To Pass One Billion Licensed Works In 2015

Posted by timothy on from the pretty-soon-you're-talking-real-non-money dept.

Jason Hibbets writes Sharing is winning. In 2015, Creative Commons is expected to pass one billion licensed works under the commons. Millions of creators around the world use CC licenses to give others permission to use their work in ways that they wouldn't otherwise be allowed to. Those millions of users are the proof that Creative Commons works. But measuring the size of the commons has always been a challenge. Until now...

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  1. Too bad so much Creative Commons is poisoned. by alzoron · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When creative commons licensing first started gaining a lot of popularity I was excited. What a great way to share creative talent with on another and help to create even better works. Then I started looking on a bunch of music sites that host creative commons licensed material and was shocked by what I found. Song after song and sample after sample contained blatant sampling of other copyrighted works. I personally can't trust anything licensed under creative commons as I can't verify that what I'm using is safe to use without fear of a lawsuit. Unfortunately, the well has been poisoned.

    1. Re:Too bad so much Creative Commons is poisoned. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I know. Unfortunately, non-CC stuff is even worse in this respect, so I guess we have to stop using music.

    2. Re:Too bad so much Creative Commons is poisoned. by amber_of_luxor · · Score: 2

      Due Dilligence was never a part of the Creative Commons License.

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      Wind Beneath Thy Wings
  2. But how to avoid this? by tepples · · Score: 2

    Eventually some songs will sound like other songs just by coincidence. There are only about 14^7 = 105 million or so distinct hooks of eight notes.* So if someone wants to honestly compose original music and release it under a Creative Commons license, how is he supposed to ensure he didn't accidentally copy someone else's work?

    * 14 is 7 distinct intervals modulo octave equivalence, times 2 for short or long note. Raised to ^7 instead of ^8 because the last note doesn't have an interval or duration.