On XML.com, Kendall Clark gives a clear and accessible review of the semantic web transition, then criticizes our own RDF metadata strategy, specifically. It’s useful and insightful feedback, so we’ve taken the time to respond at length here. (If you’re not familiar with RDF or the semantic web, or why they’re important to our mission,…

Chairman Lawrence Lessig, Executive Director Molly Van Houweling, and Technical Architect Lisa Rein announce the Creative Commons project and seek feedback at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. Read the press release.

May 16, 2002 SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA – Representatives from the new nonprofit Creative Commons (https://creativecommons.org) today outlined the company’s plans to help lower the legal barriers to creativity through an innovative coupling of law and technology. The Creative Commons will provide a free set of tools to enable creators to share aspects of their copyrighted…