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Twenty-five years ago, a small group of people made a bet. They believed that if you gave creators a simple set of tools and licenses in language that a lawyer, a machine, and a human could all read, millions of people might choose to share their work with the world instead of locking it down. Today, billions of works are CC licensed. Read our recap of the CC Founders Fireside Chat, which included stories from the earliest days of Creative Commons and thoughts about the future of sharing from Lawrence Lessig, Molly Van Houweling, Hal Abelson, and Glenn O. Brown.