Joi Ito Intro

Frank Tobia, June 18th, 2008

CC’s CEO Joi Ito kicked off the festivities with an admittedly-stretched but wholly acceptable metahpor: comparing the internet’s early battle to promote TCP/IP adoption with our present battles to promote CC’s adoption. Joi sees CC as a means of creating a path from a completely closed to a completely open world.

There are two pieces of the framework: the legal and technical piece, and the political piece. This distinction is paramount. Says Joi, “We can’t exclude people on the technology level. …  We want Republicans using it.. we want everyone using it.”

<a href=”http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/”>Photo by Steren Giannini, licensed CC-BY-3.0</a>