Lisa Rein is walking through a working prototype of the Creative Commons app. Nice wizard. You can tell Metafilter Matt helped build the GUI — clean and tight. The screenshots on the CC site don't do it justice. I wish this was live and online, I'd generate a license for Boing Boing posts. Some audience members are being real hard-ons about the possibility of bogus license generation — what if I generate a license for your project and make a false representation that it is in the public domain. It's going to be a tough problem, for sure. And I'm not sure how they'll solve it. Gordon Mohr from Bitzi thinks that charging money is the solution, but the CC people say that there will be no fees, period. I'm not sure if CC can solve it, in the context of its app, or if this is a small piece to be loosely joined to something else that validates identity for the purposes of associating it with potentially important documents like Creative Commons licenses.
Creative Commons demo
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