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Gilberto Gil's copyleft philosophy.

Interesting. Embed your copyright into your artefacts using blockchains (the technology from Bitcoin).

PicFindr searches the web* for stock photography that is completely free to use commercially. Several licensing arrangements have recently emerged as alternatives to copyright (sometimes called "copyleft") and PicFindr makes sense of them all by helping you find images based on what you have to do to use them, whether licensed under Creative Commons, GNU, a site-specific agreement, or something else. PicFindr can even find free images you can use commercially without requiring permission or credit of any kind!

Great post exploring the fractured world of CC licensing and why this author is sticking to CC-BY (Part 1 of 2)

Great post exploring the fractured world of CC licensing and why this author is sticking to CC-BY (Part 2 of 2)

Part of the debate on removing NC & ND licenses from the upcoming v4.0 Creative Commons. This argues strongly that these versions should be removed.

Part of the debate on removing NC & ND licenses from the upcoming v4.0 Creative Commons.

A brilliant piece on appropriation, sampling and remixing throughout literary, cinematic and musical history and why our notions of  property and creation have been subverted and corrupted. Published in Harpers Magazine in 2007.