Free Software Magazine: Free Art and Copyright Conflicts

“In 2000, I was a much more naive person when it came to both
free software and the legal environment in which it exists. To be
fair, I suppose I was far from alone.

“At that time, the idea of applying free licensing to artwork
was pretty new (the Creative Commons hadn’t really built up much
steam, even if they did exist, which they probably did, but I can’t
remember). There were a lot of theories about the reasons why it
was hard to motivate artists to use free licensing, perhaps because
an awful lot of people were still fuzzy about why programmers did
it…”

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