What kind of a blog title is “PlagiarismToday”? Anyway, this post from PlagiarismToday caught my attention. It proposes the concept of “reverse creative commons”. Instead of the author/developer offering others specific ways in which content can be used by others, the idea of reverse creative commons is a simply way potential users might ask for a specific use of content.
A reverse CC system could fix that by having the user pick out the license that they need/want and then emailing it in the form of a permission request to the rightsholder via email. All the user would have to do is pick the rights they need, enter some information about the work, and then send it.
