A news story from a couple months ago, has been settled at least from the perspective of Creative Commons. Lawrence Lessig's blog has the update on the removal of Creative Commons from the lawsuit by the plaintiff. See below. This is a great bit of news as the Creative Commons is an incredibly important piece of adapting intellectual property licensing to the technologies available today.
From the Why-a-GC-from-Cravath-is-great Department: The lawsuit is over (Lessig Blog):
We received this happy missive in the mail yesterday: The plaintiffs in the lawsuit about Virgin using a CC-licensed photo have dismissed CC from the case. This is not a settlement. It is not the product of negotiation. It is the recognition by plaintiffs counsel that the laws of Texas and the United States give the plaintiffs no cause to sue Creative Commons.
As I said when I announced the lawsuit here, the fact that the laws of the United States don't make us liable for the misuse in this context doesn't mean that we're not working extremely hard to make sure misuse doesn't happen. It is always a problem (even if not a legal problem) when someone doesn't understand what our licenses do, or how they work. We need to work harder to make that clear. But the news today lets us go back to t
To plug both Professor Lessig and Penn State's own Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology, Professor Lessig was recently confirmed as the keynote speaker for the 2008 Symposium. As a plug for Creative Commons Licensing, my blog uses one variation of the flexible scheme.
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