Paying for infrastructure – Creative Commons Catalyst
The benefit of donating is the perceived authority to ramble on a little bit longer, and say a few things about what CC are doing what I think could be improved. In order to do that I think its worth looking at the licences as a service (or even a product) that has to be sold to a particular audience and designing it in order to provide maximum value to that audience. What I mean by that is that there is a tendency for organizations to turn inwards - and in the case of CC that means pay more and more attention to the opinions of legal experts - rather than listen to the customers who don't understand the legal details, and in most cases don't give a rat's hat. Here is what I'd like to see: