Katherine Lynch.org

cross-posted at my education blog, Drexel LibWebmaster

In 2001, with help from Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain, the Creative Commons Corporation was formed. Their mission was to create a set of licenses in the vein of GNU GPL that would allow creative works to be published and shared with a varying level of distribution restrictions. The thought behind this was to encourage sharing of creative products--films, images, songs, etc--to encourage and inspire others in artistic/creative pursuits, and to expand the creative product's viewing audience.