My Own Biggest Fan

I am a big supporter of the Creative Commons Licence. Its purpose, in a nutshell, is to give the creator of a work control over the rights that they want to retain, and those that they want to give up. For instance, unless it is specified, anyone who wants to distribute an entry on Myownbiggestfan.org or who quotes it extensively in another work has no idea if they are in for legal repercussions or not if they do so. To make things more clear, on the main page there is a button that looks like this. If you click it it shows exactly what rights I want to retain and those that I surrender to the public domain. For example, anyone can make a derivative work of a record review of mine, or even quote the whole damn thing, as long as they credit me.

Currently I am using a CC Licence that is specified under US law. I have no idea if this is in any way enforceable or even useful, (Joe, do you know?) but that is all I have. Now there are major steps being taken to make a Canadian counterpart. In my own immortal words, “This is exciting shit!” Well, at least for me.

As usual, news of this comes to me via Cory on BoingBoing.