Suw Charman helped lead the charge over the weekend that took Creative Commons to task for linking up with 'word of mouth' promoters BzzAgents in a developing story that's been picked up by Metafilter, Larry Lessig and others.

From Suw's original post: "For Creative Commons to start using BzzAgents is, not to put too fine a point on it, a betrayal of the work done by grassroots activists who are genuinely concerned about the state of copyright today. The people who have been working hard on promoting CC, who are contributing CC material to the ever growing commons, who are writing about copyright reform, putting together seminars and events, these are CC's 'buzz agents', and they do all this work for free, because they believe on a fundamental level that it is important... getting BzzAgents to promote CC is doing a massive disservice not just to all the people who promoted CC because they believed in it, but also CC itself. In using fake 'word of mouth' promotion they devalue the work done by real supporters by polluting the blogosphere with fake buzz."

To which Dave Balter, the founder of BzzAgents, responded by calling Suw and other critics from the blogosphere liars.

To which Suw responded, point by point, and concluded "So, Dave, when are you going to begin holding yourself to the same standards of truthfulness that you are claiming I flout?"

To which Balter has responded with an apology.

For more and to stay on top of the developing story, tune in to Strange Attractor, Suw's blog.