Alive to rights
This blog is now officially protected (as such) by a Creative Commons license. Parts of my website have been licensed for a while now, but I'm going through everything to make sure it's done and official.
If you're unfamiliar with Creative Commons (CC), it's a brilliant method of extending selective copyright over creative work published online or anywhere. Taking its cue from the GNU public license, Creative Commons is far more flexible and extendable than its predecessor, and could point the way toward a reasonable exchange of knowledge and creative material in the future. CC has become increasingly popular, and may one day soon reach a critical mass.
Many sites, including the unstoppable Wikipedia, openly use and advocate CC. The nonprofit team at www.creativecommons.org have made it incredibly easy to select, enable, and publish these licenses. If you have a website and publish creative content, there's no reason to not protect yourself. Call it Creative Commonsense. :-)
This blog, for example, is licensed under the Attribution - Noncommercial - Share Alike license. This you can copy, distribute, display, and perform the content of this blog, and make derivative works based on it, provided I get credit, the work is not commercial, and any deriviative work is shared with this same license. So, another non-profit blogger could use my XML feed to publish my headlines and summaries on their site, but, say, Time magazine couldn't use one of my entries as a column, for example, without contacting me, paying me, and sending me a signed photo of Aaron Brown.
There's even a Firefox plug-in called mozcc that automatically displays the CC status of any licensed page. For example, when I visit my blog page, this shows up on the status bar:
So very cool. Now ya know.
If you're unfamiliar with Creative Commons (CC), it's a brilliant method of extending selective copyright over creative work published online or anywhere. Taking its cue from the GNU public license, Creative Commons is far more flexible and extendable than its predecessor, and could point the way toward a reasonable exchange of knowledge and creative material in the future. CC has become increasingly popular, and may one day soon reach a critical mass.
Many sites, including the unstoppable Wikipedia, openly use and advocate CC. The nonprofit team at www.creativecommons.org have made it incredibly easy to select, enable, and publish these licenses. If you have a website and publish creative content, there's no reason to not protect yourself. Call it Creative Commonsense. :-)
This blog, for example, is licensed under the Attribution - Noncommercial - Share Alike license. This you can copy, distribute, display, and perform the content of this blog, and make derivative works based on it, provided I get credit, the work is not commercial, and any deriviative work is shared with this same license. So, another non-profit blogger could use my XML feed to publish my headlines and summaries on their site, but, say, Time magazine couldn't use one of my entries as a column, for example, without contacting me, paying me, and sending me a signed photo of Aaron Brown.
There's even a Firefox plug-in called mozcc that automatically displays the CC status of any licensed page. For example, when I visit my blog page, this shows up on the status bar:
Click on it, and you'll get this:
So very cool. Now ya know.
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