Creative Commons: what’s the point?

Posted on October 29, 2008 by A. Person

Man, I must be really, really stupid. I have read about CC for years. I’ve read magazine articles, been to their website, tried very hard to understand the whole thing, but it still eludes me.
The bottom line on intellectual property (IP) seems to me to be this: from my understanding, anything you write, or any [...]

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  • About this blog!

    This is sort of a catch-all site for me to write about anything that comes time mind involving my use of computers to write music. Since around 2007 I've gotten back into algorithmic composition and the use of open source tools. In particular, you'll see posts about Csound and ChucK. In 2008, the One Laptop Per Child group (www.laptop.org) made available many gigbytes of samples and loops, completely copyright-free, for people to use in their work. I recommend you check that out as well (there's a page in this site for it). Pages vs. Posts on this blog: Pages are more along the lines of articles whereas the Blog posts are just random observations. There's no sharp distinction between the two however. Maybe someday, I'll organize it better. But probably not. (Incidentally I really like this "Digg 3 Column" theme...)