[drhagen]

I was going to say the man invented CC-BY before there was CC-BY, but apparently, the first CC licenses came out in 2002.

[catach]

Pretty sure the value of the CC licenses isn't that they invented any particular set of restrictions and freedoms, but that they applied enough lawyer energy so that the wording of those sets would be compatible with law systems.

[DakotaR]

As opposed to 'crayon' licenses that make up their own terms and cause legal uncertainty