Comments on: Really not so Simple copyright Syndication http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050419/1737/ Technology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the web Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:21:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: melog http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050419/1737/#comment-797001 melog Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:44:32 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050419/1737/#comment-797001 Blogging in the public domain is a bad idea for several reasons. First it gives you no protection from spammers to steal your content, build links to it on google and that get rated higher than the person that actually wrote the post. Second it makes it virtually impossible to keep the site up and pay for hosting. Less open, but still sorta open licenses like Creative Commons are the future of the internet I think. Copyright is just one of those things that will never stop being disputed. Blogging in the public domain is a bad idea for several reasons. First it gives you no protection from spammers to steal your content, build links to it on google and that get rated higher than the person that actually wrote the post. Second it makes it virtually impossible to keep the site up and pay for hosting. Less open, but still sorta open licenses like Creative Commons are the future of the internet I think. Copyright is just one of those things that will never stop being disputed.

]]> By: Tim http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050419/1737/#comment-4937 Tim Wed, 20 Apr 2005 11:39:38 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050419/1737/#comment-4937 I am not a lawyer. I am not aware of any blogs that release content as public domain. There are blogs that release their content under a Creative Commons license. One such site is groklaw.com. There are a number of Creative Commons licenses depending upon such things as whether the work can be modified or whether it can be used for commercial purposes. One commonly used Creative Commons license essentially says: The site retains copyright but allows you to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and to make derivative works with two restrictions: You must give the original author credit and you may not use the work for commercial purposes. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/ and http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/legalcode I am not a lawyer.

I am not aware of any blogs that release content as public domain. There are blogs that release their content under a Creative Commons license. One such site is groklaw.com.

There are a number of Creative Commons licenses depending upon such things as whether the work can be modified or whether it can be used for commercial purposes.

One commonly used Creative Commons license essentially says: The site retains copyright but allows you to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and to make derivative works with two restrictions: You must give the original author credit and you may not use the work for commercial purposes. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/ and http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/legalcode

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