I feel that Creative Commons had a lot of mindshare ten years ago, but today next to nobody really thinks or talks about it.
Is it just me?
Also, is Lawrence Lessig still active?
Is it just me?
Also, is Lawrence Lessig still active?
How much that is similar on how Linux evangelization is also harder to find? Linux won the battle, Cloud computing is mainly an unchallenged Linux realm.
I see many institutions adopting Creative Commons and similar permissive licenses. So, there is no need to pontificate about Creative Commons anymore. From teacher to newspapers use Wikipedia as a reliable source. Even The British Museum (https://www.britishmuseum.org/terms-use/copyright-and-permis...) uses Creative Commons licenses.
For me it seems that Creative Commons is the status quo and the focus rather changes towards the content itself and what can be produced.
(1) Lessig (who coined the term "free culture" and helped found many related organizations) leaving the movement to focus on e.g. money in politics, and
(2) The absence of any big tent organization promoting free culture as a movement, rather than focusing narrowly on a specific topic e.g. licenses as Creative Commons does. I co-founded the now defunct Students for Free Culture, and we were trying to do this, but we were focused on the youth demographic. Nobody ever took up the banner for the world at large, and when SFC died it felt like that was kind of the end of evangelizing for free culture.
(relativly speaking)
On many sites, I find the CC disclaimer to my joy, of course not nearly as I want to, but still quite a lot.
He hosts https://equalcitizens.us/anotherway/