Creative Commons seems like a great concept to me. So often copyrighted material online is used completely illegally, without permission from the owners or anyone involved with its creation (pirating, unauthorized distribution, etc). It believe that the CC license is a great way to sponsor collaboration between artists and creators, and can ultimately produce works that outclass anything the original creator of a CC product could ever have imagined. Music and visual media seem to be the most common uses of such a license, but I can think of many different ways that it could be applied to topics such as writing, as well.
I've heard of round-robin stories, which allow for many different writers to create a story together, taking turns per chapter, or something similar. CC could allow some writers to embellish or expand upon CC'd material, to create their own version of a story, or to tell their version of what happened to characters after the CC'd story ended. For journalistic writing, CC may allow further distribution and proliferation of your work while still maintaining credit for it.
I'm not sure I understand all of the ins and outs of Creative Commons yet, but it seems like a great concept that could be put to great use.
That being said, perhaps I wouldn't want some written material of mine to become creative commons. If I retained credit for the original work and someone modified it into something that is of inferior quality to the original, it may be difficult for a reader to tell which parts were mine and which were the contributor's, making me look bad in their estimation.
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