There were a few surprises announced as part of the CC’s 5th birthday. CC announced the development of CC zero (CC0), a sort of flip side to CC+. Rather than being a protocol to provide additional permissions like CC+, CC0 is about letting licensors: Assert that a work has no legal restrictions attached to it, or Waive any rights associated with a work so it has not legal restrictions attached to it, and “Sign” the assertion or waiver. The ideas is to “…either assert that a work has no legal restrictions attached to it or waive any rights associated with a work so it has no legal restrictions attached to it…” CC0 will have the usual aspects of any CC licence–a legal code (licence),…