Can Creative Commons solve the emerging Intellecutal Property problem in the future Web 2.0?

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WEB 2.0 is all about the internet being more interactive, about open source and open content. This result in big licensing issues, for example, if I change an article of someone and win an award with it, who is going to be the receiver of the award, he or me? How can we be sure that the initial meaning of the author of an article is not changed by different users that edited the article? Those are just several issues concerning intellectual property that will arise (or is arising) in the interactive internet environment that is evolving towards Web 2.0
So, cen creative commons solve this intellectual property problem in a web 2.0 environment?
We think that creative commons can and is solving the intellectual property problems partly. Creative Common offers different licenses, from no rights reserved till all rights reserved. An author, singer or anyone who want to publish his/her work, can get a license that fullfills his or her needs. For that part, creative commons is solving the intellectual property problems very well.
For an other part, we think that there is a solution that can be based on creative commons. If creative commons is developed further, by for example, adding more symbols, more kind of restrictions in their licensing system, it can help solving a bigger part of the intellectual problems concerned with WEB 2.0. To find out which kind of restrictions they can add to fullfill the needs of publishers, they can just ask them and if a lot appreciate a certain restriction, offer it in the future as a standard. For example, .......

Sadly, there is still a part that can not be solved by creative common, for example, how to make sure that the initial meaning of the author is not lost during the several changes the users make to his/her product. It still is not clear how to provide that certainty; the only license that can provide that certainty is a license that forbid editing. So, actually there is a solution for such authors, just license your product with a non-editing license. But what if an author wants to give users the freedom to edit and change his article, but still wants his article to provide his initial meaning?

We think that we have to enter the WEB 2.0 era to see how licensing will evolve as an answer to the WEB 2.0. But as already mentioned, we think that the intellectual property issues can be partly solved by creative commons, partly by a futher developed creative commons en partly there will be no solution. But to know for which part there will be solution and for which part there won't be any; we have to wait and see