Our first Creative Commons’ interview is up on the website:
Rick Prelinger.
(Keeper of the Prelinger Archives, which have just been accepted into the Library of Congress.

Through our partnership with the Internet Archive, my images are just going out all over the world. They are achieving a level of spread and penetration I could never do on my own. And therefore, I think that giving things away ends up benefiting me. You know, these images don’t get used up. They don’t get yellow around the edges. They don’t become less valuable from being shown and repeated. Ubiquity equals value. That’s how I think you can make money by giving things away.

Here’s the full text of the interview in case the link goes bad
(wow I really hope this particular link never goes bad):
http://www.creativecommons.org/features/rick
Rick Prelinger
Interview by: Lisa Rein
Photos by: Lisa Leigh
Dateline: 1980. New York-based typesetter Rick Prelinger was trying to “make it in the movies” and writing a reference book on two-way radio frequencies on an IBM Selectric typewriter. Two years later, he became the Research Director for “Heavy Petting,” the Norman Lear-funded Atomic Caf