-These are examples of using the Commons to better spread
- proprietary
-content. I believe that is a wonderful and common use of the
-Commons. There are others who use Creative Commons licenses for
-other reasons. Many who use the "sampling license" do so because
- anything
-else would be hypocritical. The sampling license says that others
-are free, for commercial or noncommercial purposes, to sample content
-from the licensed work; they are just not free to make full copies of the
-licensed work available to others. This is consistent with their own
-art—they, too, sample from others. Because the legal costs of sampling
-are so high (Walter Leaphart, manager of the rap group Public Enemy,
-which was born sampling the music of others, has stated that he does
-not "allow" Public Enemy to sample anymore, because the legal costs
-are so high<footnote><para>
-<!-- f2. --> Willful Infringement: A Report from the Front Lines of the Real Culture Wars
-(2003), produced by Jed Horovitz, directed by Greg Hittelman, a Fiat
- Lucre
-production, available at
+These are examples of using the Commons to better spread
+proprietary content. I believe that is a wonderful and common use of
+the Commons. There are others who use Creative Commons licenses for
+other reasons. Many who use the "sampling license" do so because
+anything else would be hypocritical. The sampling license says that
+others are free, for commercial or noncommercial purposes, to sample
+content from the licensed work; they are just not free to make full
+copies of the licensed work available to others. This is consistent
+with their own art—they, too, sample from others. Because the
+legal costs of sampling are so high (Walter Leaphart, manager of the
+rap group Public Enemy, which was born sampling the music of others,
+has stated that he does not "allow" Public Enemy to sample anymore,
+because the legal costs are so high<footnote><para>
+<!-- f2. -->
+
+Willful Infringement: A Report from the Front Lines of the Real
+Culture Wars (2003), produced by Jed Horovitz, directed by Greg
+Hittelman, a Fiat Lucre production, available at