Stephen Downes

I appreciate that Creative Commons is undertaking a good-faith effort to wrestle with some of the contradictions the emergence of AI has created around open licenses and open content. They conclude, "We believe in a thriving commons above all else. We believe that for a thriving commons to exist, reciprocity is required to sustain it. We believe that to encourage people to continue a full and sincere embrace of open sharing practices in this new world order, they have to have some agency. We continue to believe that copyright is not the hammer for every nail, and that new tools are needed. And we continue to believe that none of the experiments should come at the expense of public-interest uses, which must be strongly protected." I don't agree with the idea of reciprocity - as I've said before, openness and sharing are not transactions. And I don't want the model of a knowledge commons to be a transactional one.