Rhea Myers

huge and important news: free licenses upheld (Lessig Blog)

Excellent news:

http://lessig.org/blog/2008/08/huge_and_important_news_free_l.html

_I am very proud to report today that the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (THE "IP" court in the US) has upheld a free (ok, they call them "open source") copyright license, explicitly pointing to the work of Creative Commons and others. (The specific license at issue was the Artistic License.) This is a very important victory, and I am very very happy that the Stanford Center for Internet and Society played a key role in securing it. Congratulations especially to Chris Ridder and Anthony Falzone at the Center. _

This kind of precedent is very important for persuading corporate and institutional clients to use Free Culture licences.