’zeitgeisty’: free licenses community?
Creative Commons licenses have been around for quite a while now, and by now there also is quite a bunch of followers who believe in the idea of using free licenses for publishing self-made content. Unfortunately, the existence of “free licenses” by now still is next to unknown among “mainstream” computer users, same as most of the legal aspects of licenses itself, and this is considerably bad given that by now more and more people start uploading photos, videos, music, … using platforms like Flickripernity, deviantArt or youtube without second thought about rights and licenses, without second thought on what possibly happens to their works after they just uploaded it. There is a bunch of reasons for that, I guess, ranging from lack of knowledge to total ignorance in days of “plug-and-play” (’just switch off your brain, everything’s just a click away…’). For those not knowing yet interested, zeitgeisty by now has started in order to get the idea of free licenses to the masses, by both providing comments, hints and explanations as well as by trying to get actions and events planned and done to spread the idea of “free licenses” among computer and internet users on- as well as offline. Seems to be a rather good thing to me, especially because I am also using a CreativeCommons license for content published here and in the pictorial… ;)






