Creative Commons founders' fireside chat (Creative Commons blog)

Dee Harris has published a and included a look back at its history as
well as a look at the landscape today:

Twenty-five years ago, a small group of people made a bet. They
believed that if you gave creators a simple set of tools and licenses
in language that a lawyer, a machine, and a human could all read,
millions of people might choose to share their work with the world
instead of locking it down.

The video
of the chat is available on YouTube.