Comments on: Don’t be afraid of Creative Commons http://strange.corante.com/2007/10/03/dont-be-afraid-of-creative-commons Picking out patterns in the chaos Mon, 21 May 2012 12:19:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Kempton http://strange.corante.com/2007/10/03/dont-be-afraid-of-creative-commons#comment-2713 Kempton Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:01:56 +0000 http://strange.corante.com/2007/10/03/dont-be-afraid-of-creative-commons#comment-2713 In a strange sense, this may be a good thing to educate more people about Creative Commons licenses and their proper useages. I have used lots of CC photos on my blog entries. I have a blog call "Dragonfly on the Wall" and I love using pix of Dragonflies on it. And I've also put most of my Flickr photos under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license for others to use. But sometimes I do put full copyright or Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licenses if they are personal photos that I would hate to see misused. Just my 2 cents. Here is a link to a blog entry of Prof. Lessig's (founder of CC) take on the legal challenge http://lessig.org/blog/2007/09/on_the_texas_suit_against_virg.html In a strange sense, this may be a good thing to educate more people about Creative Commons licenses and their proper useages. I have used lots of CC photos on my blog entries. I have a blog call “Dragonfly on the Wall” and I love using pix of Dragonflies on it. And I’ve also put most of my Flickr photos under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license for others to use. But sometimes I do put full copyright or Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licenses if they are personal photos that I would hate to see misused. Just my 2 cents.

Here is a link to a blog entry of Prof. Lessig’s (founder of CC) take on the legal challenge
http://lessig.org/blog/2007/09/on_the_texas_suit_against_virg.html

]]> By: AZRainman http://strange.corante.com/2007/10/03/dont-be-afraid-of-creative-commons#comment-2712 AZRainman Fri, 05 Oct 2007 02:49:31 +0000 http://strange.corante.com/2007/10/03/dont-be-afraid-of-creative-commons#comment-2712 I'd say donating artworks to the Creative Commons is more about gaining karma, and has little do with egomania and selfish pursuits. When you stand above monetization and expect nothing in return, then it's all windfall when it does happen. Chopra was right... I’d say donating artworks to the Creative Commons is more about gaining karma, and has little do with egomania and selfish pursuits.

When you stand above monetization and expect nothing in return, then it’s all windfall when it does happen.

Chopra was right…

]]> By: Ben Metcalfe http://strange.corante.com/2007/10/03/dont-be-afraid-of-creative-commons#comment-2711 Ben Metcalfe Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:22:12 +0000 http://strange.corante.com/2007/10/03/dont-be-afraid-of-creative-commons#comment-2711 There's another side to this. My father, who's a pretty good photographer, decided to 'try this CC thing out' and licensed all of his photos on Flickr as "Creative Commons With Attribution"... ... yeah, he didn't know the importance of including the "non-commercial" facet of the license. He only realized this when it came to light his pictures have been used by a number of blatently commercial travel sites and apparently even re-printed in a book. I think he was pretty angry, especially when I explained that the license he had chosen allowed them to do this. I managed to convice him to swap to CC-NC rather than back to (c), but of course that's not retrospective. There's also some legal views that one a photo is licensed CC that license perpetuates for **future use** even if the owner of the work switches back to a more restrictive license. There’s another side to this.

My father, who’s a pretty good photographer, decided to ‘try this CC thing out’ and licensed all of his photos on Flickr as “Creative Commons With Attribution”…

… yeah, he didn’t know the importance of including the “non-commercial” facet of the license.

He only realized this when it came to light his pictures have been used by a number of blatently commercial travel sites and apparently even re-printed in a book.

I think he was pretty angry, especially when I explained that the license he had chosen allowed them to do this. I managed to convice him to swap to CC-NC rather than back to (c), but of course that’s not retrospective.

There’s also some legal views that one a photo is licensed CC that license perpetuates for **future use** even if the owner of the work switches back to a more restrictive license.

]]> By: Nick Reynolds (BBC) http://strange.corante.com/2007/10/03/dont-be-afraid-of-creative-commons#comment-2710 Nick Reynolds (BBC) Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:20:41 +0000 http://strange.corante.com/2007/10/03/dont-be-afraid-of-creative-commons#comment-2710 BBC music online recently put Creative Commons licences on all their album reviews. Here's an example of one I wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/5q9x/ (although I doubt if anyone will want to link to it!) BBC music online recently put Creative Commons licences on all their album reviews. Here’s an example of one I wrote:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/5q9x/

(although I doubt if anyone will want to link to it!)

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