Open Content! Interesting initiative from Lawrence Lessig: Creative Commons. In a boon to the arts and the software industry, Creative Commons will make available flexible, customizable intellectual-property licenses that artists, writers, programmers and others can obtain free of charge to legally define what constitutes acceptable uses of their work. The new forms of licenses will provide an alternative to traditional copyrights by establishing a useful middle ground between full copyright control and the unprotected public domain. The first set of licensing options Creative Commons plans to make available are designed mostly for people looking for some protections as they move their wares into the public domain. Those protections might include requirements that the work not be altered, employed for commercial purposes or used without proper attribution. Read more in the article All Hail Creative Commons Stanford professor and author Lawrence Lessig plans a legal insurrection. We at vonhaller law firm will probably contribute to the project here in Denmark.