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I think he was there to talk about the Creative Commons project generally, but since he has just been in Japan to announce CC there, and they are spreading around the world now, the radio show also focused on the new international IP domain they are changing with their work.
So Lessig reviewed the CC license structure:
-legal layer
-human readable "deed"
-machine readable for search engines
And talked about the choices people make when they pick a CC license
-Choice about attribution?
Turns out this is not so important to most users, but a few.
-Allowing commercial use?
-Allowing derivative works?
-Can people be as free with their work as you've been?
They now have more than a 1 million uses of their licenses, where the vast majority wants attribution and non-commercial is freely allowed.
Internationally, they now have 40 countries with creative commons licenses, however each country has a variation because each country's law is different. But the licensing structure is something like this:
-The legal layer is radically different depending on local laws
-Human layers will reflect this
-Machine layers will be universal layers, so equivalent to this (commercial use?) then it's X
Example, in Japan, doujinshi comics, where people take the comics and rewrite, is technically illegal as it is derivative work, under both Japanese and American law, but Japanese comic's lawyers leave it free of regulation because they recognize the value in the buzz created for the work.
Also, at the end of the show, Dr. Moira Gunn announced that all audio for tech nation will go under creative commons licenses.
Posted by Mary Hodder at December 09, 2003 12:44 PM