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with Creative Commons freedoms. Then the next step is to watch and
celebrate creators who build content based upon content set free.
These are first steps to rebuilding a public domain. They are not
mere arguments; they are action. Building a public domain is the first
step to showing people how important that domain is to creativity and
innovation. Creative Commons relies upon voluntary steps to achieve
this rebuilding. They will lead to a world in which more than voluntary
steps are possible.
Creative Commons is just one example of voluntary efforts by individuals
and creators to change the mix of rights that now govern the
creative field. The project does not compete with copyright; it complements
it. Its aim is not to defeat the rights of authors, but to make it
easier for authors and creators to exercise their rights more flexibly and
cheaply. That difference, we believe, will enable creativity to spread
more easily.
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