Creative Commons CloakX collaboration
At its 5th year birthday celebration, Creative Commons announced a collaboration with CloakX. The new system dubbed CC+ (Creative Commons Plus).
“CC+ will enable you to continue offering your work to the public for noncommercial use,” said Lawrence Lessig, Creative Commons CEO, “ but will also give you an easy way to sell commercial licensing rights to those who want to use your work for profit.” A Creative Commons license with CC+ will provide a link to secure commercial rights, and to services of use such as warranty, ability to use without attribution, access to performance and physical media.
This new infrastructure has symmetric benefits for both the user and the publisher and will facilitate a collaboration system for user-generated content. We want to make a range of media and publishing applications possible so we can build a viable, user-friendly technology for exchanging media, software, etc. that is totally open and empowers the artist. Our goal is to create a new infrastructure with symmetric benefits for both the user and the publisher that:
- encourages licensed viral sharing
- permits the artist (or copyright holder) to determine how music is shared/paid for.
- is hardware agnostic, so that the purchased/licensed media can be used across platforms.
Our system is basically just as convenient as piracy, without the guilt.