Some of the more forward thinking copyright owners are slapping Creative Commons licenses on their content, allowing reuse and remixing of their content by others. The copyright owner may even allow use for commercial purposes. That’s great!

But there are countless copyright owners who have not released their works to the public domain or the Creative Commons. Perhaps some of these copyright owners would be more receptive to “some rights reserved” if it was under the condition that the use be restricted to charitable purposes (i.e. charities would be allowed to use the content; or the proceeds would have to be donated to charity).

What do you all think? Larry Lessig, feel free to chime in here. 🙂