Some rights reserved

I have noticed a lot lately, people saying “some rights reserved” and displaying the creative commons logo at the end of something as one would a copyright logo. Someone at a conference I was listening to on podcast was also discussing this problem with musicians in England. He was trying to get people to license their work with creative commons, and was getting a lot of success, but when the people said their license they just said it’s a creative commons license.

Maybe creative commons needs to be more clear, while it’s good that there are choices the best license should probably have a name. Saying “Creative Commons, some rights reserved” is just as useful as saying “Copyright 2006″. Which rights are reserved? is it a creative commons attribution-only licence? or an attribution, non-commercial, sharealike license? The two are completely different in terms of what is acceptable use, but I get the feeling most people would be happy to label them both as simply creative commons licenses, as if there is only one type.