Creative Commons:
Over at Carrollogos, law prof Michael Carroll makes the case for supporting Creative Commons.
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I'm not sure I see the point in licensing blog posts, given blog norms, but I have used a CC license for my "How to Read a Legal Opinion" article.
I won't license work by hyperref to a system I have no control over. This is one of the big reasons work I have done is not under these licenses. I am a big fan of the idea that public copyright licenses should accompany content..... This avoids a number of nasty possibilities where a page is (perhaps maliciously) changed and hence effective copyright terms as expected by the licensee are changed.
This isn't so much a problem with the CC licenses so much as how they are typically used. At least as regard publishable content in print form, there are some other drawbacks that helped push me to the BSD Documentation License.
Do blog norms really matter in the legal sense? I mean, if I copy one of your posts in its entirety and post it on my webpage (which has advertisements), I have violated your copyright even if such conduct is routine in the blogosphere.
As to the merits of CCing the whole thing (or, say, all of your posts and let the other conspirators do as they will), it's partially symbolic but also preemptive. If the VC goes down, it would be nice to have an archive available and that requires permission.
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