Creative Commons And the Public Domain

After a writing a big comment to Information Fredom on the blog of that adroit modern humorist, I began to ponder why Creative Commons does not allow you the ability to release your work into the public domain at a specified time earlier than it would otherwise.
Actually, they do have something that does this. It’s called Founders’ Copyright. It is a great idea, but why is something similar not an option for the standard Creative Commons Licenses?

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  1. Posted March 3, 2004 at 7:31 pm | Permalink

    Copyright laws
    I recently commented on a post to lewispowell.com. In response, Eric McCarthy wrote an extended comment of his own and also posted a follow-up (on related matters). The initial post by Lewis stated “There is something wrong with the very…

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