Lens now has CC0 and other creator licenses via social media app Hey

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Hey added commercial use, personal use and CC0, or ‘no rights reserved,’ creator license codes for use on Lens.
Each let users dictate their content ownership, control its usage and augment how their content’s attribution and revenue sharing works.

The social media app Hey incorporated three creator license codes for users creating content on the web3 social platform Lens.

Hey added commercial use, personal use and CC0, or "no rights reserved," creator licenses. Each lets users dictate their content ownership, control its usage and augment how their content's attribution and revenue sharing work.

"This marks a first step towards a future of programmable, composable and ownership-friendly social media," said Christina Beltramini, Head of Growth and Partnerships at Aave AAVE -1.050% on the social media platform X. This is "vital for the future of remix-able co-creation of content and creativity," Beltramini added.

Avara, the firm previously known as Aave Companies that is building out Lens, launched the platform's V2 on the blockchain network Polygon in November 2023. The update allowed for onchain metadata licensing for use across the Lens ecosystem, Beltramini continued.

Lens is a permissionless, decentralized "social graph," which describes a user's connections to others on the platform. Lens users own their social data, which they can plug into different applications to transfer over content, followers and other key social items.

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