Creative Commons and the Strategy of Development of Information Society

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Ivan I. Zassoursky

Head at the Chair of New Media and Communication Theory, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

e-mail: zassoursky@gmail.com

Section: Theory of Journalism and Media

This article presents a new way to estimate the wealth of knowledge and deals with laws on copyright and public domain regime, including the issue of Creative Commons license adoption. What follows is the attempt to apply presented methodo­logy to work out practical steps and strategic guidelines for Information society development in the real context of Russia 2012.

Keywords: information society, Creative Commons, public domain, knowledge