Matt Haughey reflects upon the Creative Commons, this being the first day of the Eldred vs Ashcroft case:

“If someday copyright was a different story, allowing people to use and reuse others’ works instead of letting them decay and rot until they someday enter the public domain (in many cases over 100 years after their creation), our culture could benefit greatly in ways we can’t possibly fathom today. The great promise of the internet was to house and make instantly available the entire scope of human knowledge. Without new works entering into the public domain, that knowledge is largely lost.”

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