Found via Instapundit: Lawrence Lessig's brainchild, the Creative Commons, is finally live, thanks in part to the contributions of Matt Haughey.
The Commons exists, in part, to make it easier for creators to allow others to use their work in limited, or even unlimited, ways to promote greater creativity:
We will help copyright holders who do not want to exercise all of the restrictions of copyright law either dedicate their work to the unrestricted public domain, or license their work on terms that allow copying and creative reuses subject to some conditions. And we will help would-be copiers and creative reusers find those works by making the public domain and license terms machine-readable (and therefore easily searchable) and easy to understand.
Right on.
Posted by wasylik at May 20, 2002 01:20 PM