A personal injury lawyer has named Creative Commons in a lawsuit, charging that its license that permits commercial uses fails to adequately specify that the license does not entitle uses that might violate other laws, such as those protecting privacy (in other words, that one might not acquire all the rights one needs for commercial exploitation through the CC license that permits it): Creative Commons on the Firing Line at madisonian.net: a weblog about law, technology, and society. It will be interesting to see how this unfolds. CC licenses are extremely important to the usability of materials on the Web.
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