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Today, I got my first Slashdot story posted. Creative Commons Launches Today. It's mostly a dupe of my infoAnarchy story of the same title.

I just learned tonight that Swiss women didn't get the right to vote in federal elections until 1971! Wow, talk about behind the times!

For more, read Swizerland in Sight: The Right to Vote.

Danny O'Brien posted an entry I didn't understand until I thought really hard about it.

He wrote: "One more thing I'm going to have problems explaining to my daughter: what 'cc:' stands for."

The first time I read that, I though, "Huh? Does he think they won't have email in the future?"

Then I realized what he meant. "CC:" stands for "carbon copy". I'd almost forgotten about those damn things! I'm 23, and I barely remember carbon paper. Danny's daughter is going to have a difficult time with this concept...

Creative Commons is having their big launch party tomorrow, December 16. They're unveiling their human-, computer-, and lawyer-readable licenses that make it easy to give away part of your copy rights to the public.

Well, their website launched a bit early. :)

You can check out their license chooser already. Why wait? Beat the rush.

It's pretty slick. After you answer three questions (the default answers lead you to select "public domain" as your license), it gives you a license which meets your requirements, then tells you how to use it. Optionally, you can enter some metadata about your project for the CC registry.

I've started an infoAnarchy story to track the Creative Commons launch.

This may well be my first scoop. This isn't on Slashdot or anything yet (I just submitted a story about it). If so, that's pretty cool.