LEXISNEXIS SUMMARY: ... New and fading types of creation might justify changes to the rights schemes, but inertia would operate to keep the rights schemes static. ... The CC licenses allow creators to license their content to users with restrictions chosen from a menu of commonly desired moral and economic rights reservations -- for example, prohibiting derivative works or modifications to downstream licensing. ... The Creative Commons License Scheme The CC 3.0 licenses contain general provisions common to all of the licenses, as well as drop-in clauses (designations) associated with each of the four specific rights reservations provided by the system. ... COMBINING FREE LICENSING WITH COPYRIGHT REGISTRATION This Note proposes a solution to the overprotection problem that involves combining the steps of some-rights-reserved license designation and copyright registration, to provide benefits of both copyright heterogeneity and copyright formalities while avoiding some of the pitfalls of each.