Creative Commons is a tease!

I think Creative Commons licensing is pretty cool. If Flickr and CC images had existed when I was at university doing interactive art projects and learning design, it would have been a massive help. But unfortunately, I think 2 factors have aligned to make it a bit useless to me. These factors are: Pretty much everyone is using the non-commercial license Because of things like Adsense , pretty much everything is commercial If you post an image on your blog, and your blog has ads, that's basically a commercial use, right? If you make a Flash game with CC non- commercial artwork, you shouldn't even upload it to a portal, as the portal will sell ads around it and so make money. Look at Aral Balkan's stitch-up by Sys -Con as an example of the mess that CC can get things into. Should I even post CC images on my blog? It doesn't have ads, but isn't it kinda part of my business? Case in point: I love this set of CC sprites by Philipp Lensenn They are brilliant, b