NewsForge: Creative Commons Gets New Chairman; Lessig to Continue as CEO

“After four successful years of revolutionizing how content is
shared in the real world, Lawrence Lessig, founding chairman of
Creative Commons, announced his retirement as chairman of the board
last week. Lessig passed the CC torch to Joi Ito, a venture
capitalist from Japan.

“Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization and is known
for its Creative Commons copyright licenses. ‘We provide free
licenses,’ Lessig writes, ‘that mark creative work with the freedom
the creator wants it to carry, so others can share the work, or
remix the work, or both share and remix the work, as the author
chooses…'”

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