Lawsuit Against Virgin Mobile and Creative Commons

The Cre­ative Com­mons has a FAQ on the Law­suit Against Vir­gin Mobile and Cre­ative Com­mons.

The story in a nut­shell: Vir­gin Mobile used an image that a pho­tog­ra­pher had posted to Flickr using a CC license and did not give him attri­bu­tion. He’s now suing Vir­gin Mobile, as you’d expect, but also Cre­ative Com­mons because he didn’t under­stand the license.

How stu­pid is this guy? The licenses are very well explained and there’s no require­ment that you use them (and Flickr defaults to reg­u­lar copy­right). If you attach a CC license with­out under­stand­ing it, why is it Cre­ative Com­mons’ fault?

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