December 5, 2021 is the day when the CryptoPunks lore began to crack. It was a day of reckoning and the big brains in the NFT world all sang in unison, “The future is CC0.”

But many people tweeted, “What’s CC0?”

Here’s the official definition for CC0 from creativecommons.org:

“CC0 enables scientists, educators, artists and other creators and owners of copyright- or database-protected content to waive those interests in their works and thereby place them as completely as possible in the public domain, so that others may freely build upon, enhance and reuse the works for any purposes without restriction under copyright or database law. In contrast to CC’s licenses that allow copyright holders to choose from a range of permissions while retaining their copyright, CC0 empowers yet another choice altogether – the choice to opt out of copyright and database protection, and the exclusive rights automatically granted to creators – the “no rights reserved” alternative to our licenses.”

By the way, this is CryptoPunk #2317, the one Robness burned back on July 12, 2021: https://twitter.com/robnessofficial/status/1414664615506546690 Burn footage: https://twitter.com/robnessofficial/status/1414674121468694528 https://cryptoart.io/artist/robness_v2

The CryptoStellas project is Creative Commons with attribution. The CC license that made the most sense for me personally is this: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. You must give attribution to Stellabelle with this CC license. Perhaps I will be moving to public domain CC0 too……..as it is the next logical step.

This art is dedicated to my friend, @mikethreezy who has kept me informed about the CC0 tweets. He’s also funny as fuck:

“idc if u cc0 ur project. that’s up to u. i do think it is the most profitable and equitable way to license images and build a brand, not to mention the most practical since anyone can mint and sell whatever jpeg they want, including ur original artwork, with or w/o ur permission.” -https://twitter.com/mikethreezy/status/1467680356853850112

Here’s how December 5, 2021 went with #cc0 a new trending topic in NFT Twitter.

@punk4156: “i love punks, but the copyright issue kind of broke my heart. i held deep 8 figures of punks and the devs unfollowed me when i suggested it. wouldn't respond to DMs. i'm going to keep 4156 (probably forever), but will otherwise be focusing my time on nouns, toadz and other CC0” https://twitter.com/punk4156/status/1467515691452534793

@robnessofficial: “CREATIVE COMMONS IS THE LITERAL BREATH OF CRYPTOCURRENCY, AS A WHOLE. IT GAVE LIFE TO EVERY OTHER ALTERNATIVE BLOCKCHAIN. TO PRACTICE THIS AS A WAY MOVING FORWARD IS BENEFICIAL TO THE WORLD OF IDEAS. COPYRIGHT IS A THING OF THE PAST. 4156 SHOULD BURN HIS PUNK AND JOIN ME.” https://twitter.com/robnessofficial/status/1467527298400153604

@robnessofficial: “COPYRIGHT MAXIS GET REAL MAD ON TWITTER. THAT’S HOW YOU KNOW IT’S WORKING.” https://twitter.com/robnessofficial/status/1467548186810015745

@Ohhshiny: “The metaverse is CC0” -https://twitter.com/ohhshiny/status/1463367708255260677

@GmoneyNFT: “The future is CCO.” https://twitter.com/gmoneyNFT/status/1467671907998777347

@stellabelle: “Our eggs and sperm are #cc0” https://twitter.com/stellabelle/status/1467752371782627329

@stellabelle: “Blockchain cancelled copyright” https://twitter.com/stellabelle/status/1467747263887941632

@stellabelle: “Punks are not where this all began. I was there. Beanie doesn’t know what he’s talking about.” https://twitter.com/stellabelle/status/1467699497417465863

@stellabelle: “Who are the most influential people in the #NFT Creative Commons #cc0 movement (historical and now)?” https://twitter.com/stellabelle/status/1467551217492664337

@stellabelle: “in 2017 i created a creative commons cryptoart collective, slothicorn. it appears i was 4 years ahead.” https://twitter.com/stellabelle/status/1467538786087276546

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