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I think that there isn’t anything on the web that gets me as dewy-eyed idealistic and red-bloodedly fired up at the same time as Creative Commons.

The Commons is the great hope for the future of the web. The closer that things turn out to the vision of the Creative Commons, the richer the human race is going to be in the web age. It’s that simple: everything else I find interesting and exciting and hope-inciting about the web depends on that.

I was just taking a look at a cool service called dotSUB that iCrossing UK‘s search supremo, Johnnie Stewart pointed me to (adds subtitles in any language to videos you upload – mind-spinningly brilliant) and stumbled across this Creative Commons promotional video.

Two quotes from the video (all the easier to transcribe because of the sub-titling, I get it, Johnnie) stand out:

• Creative commons is all about trying to “save the world from failed sharing”.
• “What we’ve done is given you the right to exercise your copyright in more ways, more simply.”

Wonderful stuff – take a look at the video if you want to understand a bit more about Creative Commons, or if you know all about it and just fancy a hit of the future (the good variant of the future where we work all of the potential of this web thing out)…