Taloussanomat adopts CC-licensing

4/06/2007

TaloussanomatThis is pretty phenomenal – Taloussanomat, one of the largest business papers adopts Creative Commons licensing in their articles. Hooray! They apparently began to license all their articles with CC: BY-NC-ND license.

I’ve been a strong supporter of Creative Commons ever since learned of Lessig and the movement. Later on I helped the US Freeculture movement by designing a logo for them. It seems that they still use it – I piled the three legos on our dinner table and snapped a photo of them, little did I know it they would be so famous :)

Anyhow, correct me if I’m wrong but this is the first time in Finland that a major news company adopts a Creative Commons licenses. A good day for Finland, a very good day.

Update: They still Copyright news from STT – ironically I found this out through an article discussing piracy/copyright criminals.

There are 4 comments in this article:

  1. 14/06/2007Kalle say:

    OK, maybe I’m late but I just saw the new remix icon on the Creative Commons deeds… Have you seen that? – http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  2. 18/06/2007Antti say:

    Holy crap! :) That’s pretty awesome news :) I’ll have to blog about this…

  3. 18/06/2007antti.vilpponen.net » Blog Archive » CC adopts a Remix icon I designed years ago say:

    [...] wrote about the logo I designed for Freeculture.org some years back over here. Take a look at the new CC remix icon over here and in the image above. Looks funnily similar! [...]

  4. 5/08/2007itis say:

    Well, if you look at the quality of articles in Taloussanomat, adopting cc is not big deal since no one wants read that crap anyway..

Write a comment: