This is a response to these two medias:
Public domain simply feels like another thing in this world with too much regulation that keeps the world boring. Like the Remix Manifesto film I discussed a couple posts ago said, it used to be a small amount of time before something went into public domain. Enough time to let whatever is copyrighted shine on its own and be individual while also allowing people to use it to their own creativity in the same lifetime. Now, things only go into public domain 70 years after the last author of the art dies. The website talking about public domain even mentions that anything made before 1850 is most certainly in public domain, as if that's meant to be comforting or relieving. It's actually ridiculous how long it takes things to go into public domain, because that means if you were alive during its creation, there is basically no way you can legally use that to your own creative agenda. The amount of time it takes something to go into public domain is basically a lifetime and a half, and that is absolutely insane to me.
Meanwhile, creative commons feels like a fix to public domain. Unlike public domain, it feels like a system that was actually made to protect the artist. This lets people share work ethically and encourages creativity in a world that otherwise is heading down a pretty bland track. Instead of new art being criminalized and intimidating, it's communicative and helps people easily spread their own wishes for their art and anything related to it. I find it incredibly relieving that things like this and with this kind of sharing mentality are becoming more and more popular, because personally I am tired of the amount of regulations and capitalized roadblocks come from something as freeform as art.
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