A Right to Copy

I was at the public discussion for Malaysia's proposed adoption of the Creative Commons License. In the bigger scheme of things, it would appear that I was one of the little voices that contributed to the drafting of a legislation. Now I'm feeling rather important... hehe..

Personally, I'm choosing not to register with cc for now. I'll take my chances with copyright because I do want people to ask my permission to use any part of this blog. You could say that I am a skeptic or simply old school. Or just someone with self interest. Isn't anyone? Definitely it's important to be attributed as a writer of a work, but it doesn't hurt to get paid for it either.

Having said that however, I do agree with the cc licensing introduction in Malaysia. With globalisation and the Internet, everyone's words and works are 'published' in all parts of the world. It's a significant development and the youth of today are embracing the culture more readily compared to 'oldies' like me. It would be interesting to observe the impact of the cc licenses once it's implemented in Malaysia. I personally hope that it would create an environment of trust, reliability of information and responsible copying of materials.