W11：After knowing creative commons｜LiuXinlei

 On the cc website, I can easily see that the content about Creative Commons Calls on the EU to Show Clear Support for Waiving COVID Vaccine Patents appears on the homepage. We are all looking forward to our life as soon as possible to return to the state before the virus epidemic, and from this post, I can feel that copyright and all aspects of human society are connected.

COVID knows no boundaries, does not recognise the nationality of its victims and if we do not have a global approach to vaccinations, we will never bring the virus under control and end the pandemic. If the global North gets vaccinated whilst the Global South does not, this is a tragedy of our own making and we will all ultimately suffer. You might be getting tired of the virus, but the virus is not tired of you. 

In all aspects, copyright awareness exists. With the rapid replacement of cultural products and other products of human civilization that are easily spread, we can easily obtain information and even professional knowledge. We look at this matter from two perspectives. On the one hand, the rapid development of information dissemination facilitates the acquisition and use of information by all mankind. Most of the nationality and margins are in the Internet as if they were imaginary. But on the one hand, the update of the law in terms of copyright is not enough for us to support the use and dissemination of all information. The form of information and the speed of media change are as fast as trends, and we can't even find out the ownership and use type of copyright from the performance of a content in thousands of forms. This is why cc has always supported the updating and promotion of copyright in various regions.

CC licenses are not a substitute for users’ rights, and CC supports ongoing efforts to reform copyright law to strengthen users’ rights and expand the public domain.

[The] existence of open copyright licenses shouldn’t be interpreted as a substitute for robust copyright reform. Quite the contrary. The decrease in transaction costs, increase in collaboration, and massive growth of the commons of legally reusable content spurred on by existence of public licenses should drastically reinforce the need for fundamental change, and not serve as a bandage for a broken copyright system.

In my opinion, cc is more like a mentor advocated in copyright. The passage of increasingly stringent copyright regulations may invalidate CC licenses and tools. However, copyright laws that are too lacking cannot guarantee the rights of the original authors of the information. As cc reiterated, the mission of knowledge sharing sometimes requires each of us to participate in reform efforts. Knowledge sharing may not be the end of civilization and progress, but we need to defend the freedom of knowledge sharing.