Creative Commons retires two licenses

Lawrence Lessig has sent out a message stating that the Creative Commons organization has decided to retire the Developing Nations and Sampling licenses. “The Developing Nations license is in conflict with the growing ‘Open Access Publishing’ movement. While the license frees creative work in the developing nations, it does not free work in any way elsewhere. This means these licenses do not meet the minimum standards of the Open Access Movement. Because this movement is so important to the spread of science and knowledge, we no longer believe it correct to promote a stand alone version of this license.” There are similar motivations for the retirement of the Sampling license.

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