Glenn O. Brown responds to the criticisms of the Creative Commonwealth proposal highlighted in this space (and echoed by a number of commentators) last Wednesday. His first point is that "It is never a foregone conclusion that a project in discussion will be adopted by Creative Commons." This gives me some hope. Moreover, he argues, commercialization in Creative Commons will "never extend beyond facilitating what, say, the folks at Magnatune are doing: helping authors declare 'some rights reserved,' then to charge, if they want to, for uses of those reserved rights." But herein lies the problem: it allows the producers of commercial work to represent them as non-commercial. Is this something the Creative Commons community wants? I sincerely doubt it. And so the debate begins.
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