Creative Commons 1967
At this weekend’s Singularity Summit in San Francisco, “openness” of every sorts — unstoppered source, unstoppered access, unstoppered content, image — seems to be thoughtful an undisputed and essential conception of making “AI and the forthcoming of humanity” a beatific one, for example:
If the individualism is in fact near, the basic tools of information, cooperation and admittance module be our prizewinning wish for making it hap in a artefact that spreads its benefits and minimizes its dangers — in short, making it hap in a artefact that lets us be beatific ancestors.
However, Creative Commons was mentioned in meaning to a cardinal assemblage older poem, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace by Richard Brautigan. Apostle Saffo highlighted the poem as an warning of a “positive, compelling exteroception that mediocre grouping could acquire into.” But before display the poem, Saffo highlighted the papers attending as CC-like:
© Copyright 1967 by Richard Brautigan
Permission is acknowledged to publication whatever of these poems in magazines, books and newspapers if they are presented absent free.
Sounds a aggregation same a CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license.
Here is an warning of a 2005 blogging of the poem (go there to feature it). The blogger specifically cites the permission, though whether a journal qualifies as whatever of the permissible mediums haw be questionable. So yes, granting authorisation up face does support distribute your work, modify decades later, and yes, it is beatific to hit lawyers participating in craft the authorisation language. Forty eld later, Creative Commons has both condemned tending of. 
For whatever CC Attribution-licensed blogging and photos of the summit, wager king Orban’s blog and Flickr set.