Just back from Creative Commons‘ sixth birthday party at 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco. (I think I’ve been to most of CC’s birthday bashes. Here’s my coverage from last year.) Creative Commons — I think of it as a service that lets you fine-tune your copyright (haven’t seen a more succinct definition anywhere) — is on firm financial footing now, it seems, so much so that there were no speeches or calls for support tonight, just party music and an open bar.
Among those I chatted up or spotted: Jamie Boyle, chairman of Creative Commons; Jennifer Jenkins, director of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke University; Marc Canter; Mary Hodder; Leah Culver; Glenn Otis Brown, former executive director of Creative Commons; Joi Ito, the CEO, who snapped photos with his spiffy new Canon D5; Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales; Kevin Marks; VP Mike Linksvayer, who runs many of CC’s day-to-day operations now, and a slew of other folks.
And Lawrence Lessig, who started this movement six short years ago and then moved on to launch Change-Congress.org. We’ll miss him as he moves East to Harvard. He must be wistful as he watches Creative Commons grow up.
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