Creative but not all that common

Interesting project here that relates to representation for visual artists, and ownership.

"One for the Commons is an initiative to bring open licensing, such as
Creative Commons, into the fine arts and design community. The idea of
sharing culture, Open Source software, and a DIY ethos of sharing pervade
much of the communities built around computing and creating. Like the music
industry, and soon the publishing industry, the fine arts and design
community has resisted this epistemic shift as a threat to their control
over intellectual property. This resistance relegates the arts and design to
a position outside the cultural transformation that has lead to the rise of
user generated culture, citizen journalists, and TV shows that are built
entirely around reporting on what is hot on the Internet. Fine arts have the
opportunity to embrace this possibility, or suffer even more marginalization
than the culture wars provided.

We are asking living artists to declare at least one image Creative
Commons-Attribution, or Public Domain. These images will be include in a
book published at the end of the year, entitled "400 For the Commons" or
"534 for the Commons" or however many images we generate in that period of
time. The following year a new book will be published."