Will someone explain to me the benefits of a trendy system developed by Professor Lawrence Lessig of Stanford? Dubbed Creative Commons, this system is some sort of secondary copyright license that, as far as I can tell, does absolutely nothing but threaten the already tenuous "fair use" provisos of existing copyright law. This is one of the dumbest initiatives ever put forth by the tech community. I mean seriously dumb. Eye-rolling dumb on the same scale as believing the Emperor is wearing fabulous new clothes.
It doesn't matter to me if Dvorak is right or wrong because I believe (I'm not sure) that in the Philippines there's no fair use law. I wonder how CC really affects people outside of America.
Update: Here's another article made by Ben Adida that answers Dvorak's article point for point. He basically explained that CC does not render fair use useless.
