Take Your Copyright and Do What You Want
I’ve written numerous times about the Creative Commons license, and how it is not an alternative to copyright, and how copyright is not evil and Creative Commons is not a hero, and in general how confused the average creative person is about copyrights and creative commons licenses.
I’ve releatedly said that Creative Commons is merely a pre-written partial license to use material, but is NOT something actually different than copyrght. Here is an example of this - the satire and humor website Satirium grants a blanket license for certain uses of material on its website. It holds the copyright, but wishes to allow certain uses without requiring the user to seek and obtain permission individually. So it wrote it’s copyright notice to explain what rights it grants in advance, and what rights it retains. This is exactly what copyright law has always allowed copyright holders to do, and exactly what the Creative Commons license does - except that the Creative Commons licenses are standardized and written by someone else, and the use of them without reading and understanding them is as bad as signing a contract without reading it first to see what you are agreeing to.
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