Why I Don't Use Creative Commons Licenses?
From almost two decades it's pretty common that the majority of content published on the Internet is done under some sort of Creative Commons license. In the past I did it too, but recent (or recent to me) events made me change my mind.
Many years ago I had a problem where part of my content was used on a website trying to impersonate me and I had many problems with their hosting company because they didn't want to remove those contents because they were released under Creative Commons. Anyway that didn't change my mind about CC, my mind changed because of the following two recent events:
- The Creative Commons Signal proposal1. You should see the discussions on GitHub2 where you can see how CC turns a deaf ear to people's comments against the proposal.
- A blog post3 that IMHO is too much in favour of the so-called AI. The post is from 2021 but I noticed it recently because someone shared it on Mastodon.
If we take into account that a great number of content released under a Creative Commons license is done under the CC BY-NC-SA4 and the CC BY-NC-ND5 licenses, that both licenses require that if you use a work under them you should attribute the original author and also forbid you to use the work for commercial use, we will see that Creative Commons has passed from being an organization that was allegedly in favor of artists and creators to one that seems to have ultimately sided with companies and organizations that to a great extent breach the terms of their licenses.
So, given this scenario and for ethical reasons, I can't keep using Creative Commons licenses nor support and/or encourage its use.