Sandy Starr, The Creative Commons, Spiked, February 18, 2004. A good overview, as much on fair use and the public domain as on the details of CC licenses. (Thanks to ITRU Update.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/20/2004 01:53:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.