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Nov 6, 2003
"My teaching, if that is the word you want to use, has no copyright. You are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret, distort, garble, do what you like, even claim authorship, without my consent or the permission of anybody." --U.G. Krishnamurti
The Internet makes it easy to share. Almost too easy, some say. Three years ago, the music industry sued Napster, the first popular music file-sharing network on the Internet. But what if people prefer to share their creative works (and the power to copy, modify, and distribute their works) instead of exercising all of the restrictions of copyright law? A professor at Stanford Law School, Lawrence Lessig, had the answer -- a "creative commons" license. It uses private rights to create public goods: creative works set free for certain uses.
BE THE CHANGE
Create something and mark it with a version of UG's copyright notice (above). Share it freely.
