And in Scribd…

I wrote about this CC+ confusion yesterday and now I have made good to update the ideas behind this so that others may help spread the ideas. Note, I added a graphic to explain how CC licenses and other agreements sit on top of copyright.

Help me spread the word. CC+ is NOT a license. It is a protocol. On the CC+ website, there is further clarification of this.

Ok, let me try that again:

CC+ is NOT a license.

Spread the news!

Here is a nice way to visualize what CC+ is built to enable.

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CC+ is CC license + Another agreement.

It is NOT a new license, but a facilitation of morePermissions beyond ANY standard CC licenses.

If you want to adopt CC+, please (1) implement CC+ simple technology on your site, (2) add your project/company name, and (3) let us know!

The main idea behind it is to allow for commercial rights to be brokered for monetization of content. While the branding behind CC+ has worked brilliantly in spreading the term, a basic misunderstanding or word seriously skews the understanding of CC+.

I see CC+ is blowing up on the web today. NOTE: It is NOT a new license, but a facilitation of morePermissions beyond ANY standard CC licenses. CC+ is CC license + Another agreement.

One goal is to help semanticize commercial transactions for free flow of business transactions, but also, to provide a mechanism to enable commercial interoperability on multiple levels. Yahoo! has integrated it at the “system level” so hopefully will get more adoption because of that as well…

I have been working overtime on getting this project launched on the Creative Commons side, and has been one of my major projects (along with working on Open Library, adding CC licensing to OLPC, and many other fund tasks. NOTE: All of these projects are great projects which involve so many more people than just me…I am just an instigator/agitator a lot of the time now

Here is the blog post Eric Steuer made about CC+:

We are very excited to announce the launch of the CC+ (aka CC Plus) and CC0 (aka CC Zero) programs. These are major additions to the Creative Commons array of legal tools.

In a nutshell, CC+ is a protocol to enable a simple way for users to get rights beyond those granted by a CC license. Meanwhile, CC0 is a protocol that enables people to either assert that a work has no legal restrictions attached to it or waive any rights associated with a work so it has no legal restrictions attached to it. The program also provides an easy way to sign these assertions or waivers.

Please read our press release about the launch of CC+ and CC0 for more information about how they work and who we’re collaborating with.

I’ll be writing more about CC0 (CCZero) shortly and how this will be a brilliant project for Open Clip Art Library, Open Font Library and other free and open content projects.