It's YouTube and MySpace that got the attention this year (blogs having had their gee-whiz moment a minute back), but the foundations of those services are shaky, precisely because they are in many ways predicated on material that could get lawyered up at any moment. The Creative Commons movement is lawyered up. Creative works with a CC license are genuinely part of the promise of user-generated content, because CC-specifying copyright owners have taken care to say exactly how their works can and cannot be remixed, reused and reproduced. - Angela Gunn for USA Today.
