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Innovation in Open Networks - Creative Commons, the Next Layer of Openness

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Oct 30, 2009

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A few months ago, McKinsey & Co. asked me to write an article for their online magazine What Matters. The edited article, "Creative Commons: Enabling the next level of innovation" was just posted to their site.

Following is the unedited original version.

The explosion of innovation around the Internet is driven by an ecosystem of people who work in an open network defined by open standards. However, the technical ability to connect in an increasingly seamless way has begun to highlight friction and failure in the system caused by the complicated copyright system that was originally designed to "protect" innovation. Just as open network protocols created an interoperable and frictionless network, open metadata and legal standards can solve many of the issues caused by copyright and dramatically reduce the friction and cost that it currently represents.

Before Ethernet and RJ45 connectors became the standard, we connected computers together using a variety of different network technologies and connectors. It was usually physically impossible to connect computer

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