Adam & Amber’s Blog

I must say that I don’t know a whole lot about Creative Commons. I know that it is an alternative licensing model for copyrighting material that is promoted by people who want more freedom of content but I never really knew the details of it. I saw a link to this video last night and it intrigued me. The man presenting is Lawrence Lessig, a law professor at Stanford Law School and more important in this context the founder of Creative Commons. Needless to say this is not an unbiased look at creative commons, but it does do a good job of explaining what creative commons is and isn’t, and relates it back to the free software movement.

The video is long (an hour and fifteen minutes) but the actual presentation only takes up about 45 minutes of that, the remainder being Q&A. Regardless of how you feel about the content, the presentation is good and surprisingly entertaining (by Geek Standards) (Worth watching the first few minutes for the Back to the Future 3 remix). The audio is a little out of sync (at least on my computer) which is annoying until you get used to it.