Creative Commons as Conversational Copyright
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Description
Copyright law's default settings inhibit sharing and adaptation of creative works even though new digital technologies greatly enhance individuals' capacity to engage in creative conversation. Creative Commons licenses enable a form of conversational copyright through which creators share their works, primarily over the Internet, while asserting some limitation on user's right with respect to works in the licensed commons. More specifically, this chapter explains the problems in copyright law to which Creative Commons licenses respond, the methods chosen, and why the machine-readable and public aspects of the licenses are specific examples of a more general phenomenon in digital copyright law that will grow in importance in the coming years.
ISBN
9780275988821
Publication Date
1-1-2007
Book Title
Intellectual Property and Information Wealth: Issues and Practices in the Digital Age
Publisher
9780275988821
Keywords
Copyright, Commons, Creative Commons, Property, Relevance
Disciplines
Intellectual Property Law | Law
Recommended Citation
Carroll, Michael W. “Creative Commons as Conversational Copyright.” In Intellectual Property and Information Wealth: Issues and Practices in the Digital Age, edited by Peter Yu, 445-461. Vol. 1. Copyright and Related Right. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2007.