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Paypal only offers limited accounts in the country I live in. Can I support you via Moneybookers?

CC’s most recent audited financial statements are posted at http://ibiblio.org/cccr/docs/audit.pdf. The Statement of Activities shows that just over 82% of our funds ($1,105,583) went to programs and nearly 18% ($234,662) was spent on administrative and fundraising expenses. The Statement of Functional Expenses gives you a general breakdown of how this money was spent.

Mark, I think the Lessig letters provide more a bit more detail about the future of CC than you allow here. But I agree that a link to financial data or audits would be nice.

http://www.ezec.gov/Toolbox/501c3factsheet.html

“There are 8 types of tax-exempt 501(c)3 organizations: charitable; religious; educational; scientific; literary organizations; those that test for public safety; support national and international sports competitions; and those that work to prevent cruelty to children or animals. Many community and economic development organizations have chosen to classify themselves as educational organizations. However, be aware that 501(c)3 public charities are supposed to receive at least one third of their support from the general public. Some organizations find themselves relying heavily on donations from founders or board members, or going back year after year to the same foundations or corporations for income, which may not count as “public” support. “

First, as you probably realize, there is no good infrastructure for micropayments. How do you propose to collect these fees?

Second, it is not the creator who gains from having work under a CC license, but the public. A comparison between the cost of an attorney drafting up a license and a small payment is invalid, because the current default is no license at no cost. The goal is to make it easier for a creator to keep only partial rights, for the benefit of others. Charging the benevolent licensor (in money and hassle) for their generosity is counterproductive.

I think your overall question is good, though: “What is the money for?” One of the letters offers some details about future projects (http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/5734), but not any explanation of what the money will be used for. And is the goal an arbitrary number? The only logic offered for the amount seems to be “We are down to the last $100,000”.

Does this somehow explain why you need another $100,000? If $100,000 is a critically small amount, why is that also the amount you need to raise? If it is a large amount, where is the crisis? How much did you start with? What was it spent on? How long will this money last? And the references to the need for “public support” would seem to imply the real need cannot actually be mentioned. It all feels too shady, mysterious, and manipulative for me to want to be part of.

–nate

After reading “The Lessig Letters” I am still dumbfounded.
What do you need the moeny for? Paying the “volunteers from over 70 countries around the world interested in porting our licenses to their local law????”

Here you go Mr. Lessig – charge $0.05 per license user.
It is fair price, a nickle for a real legal use license that would cost between $500 to $1000 if the user went to an attorney. At the 50,000,000 link-backs CC brags about – CC would have close to $3,000,000 in spending cash – 30X more than the paltry $100,000 you are begging for.

As I would tell the drunk at my door “son, get a job.”

NB – Assuming that 5 US cents is too expensive for some of your 3rd world country users, CC could create a scale, say, charging U$S 0.08 for US users and U$S 0.02 for those in Cuba.