What Aaron Did With Creative Commons?

Aaron Swartz created the Creative Commons, which allows people to share files without paying for them. The idea is that computers can't tell if a file is locked or unlocked there like this is DRM or this is something else. Aaron made it in a way that he could include metadata with these files with music images,. everything that was being sent out to people. He said: "What we're talking about is making creative commons make sense"

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