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How Creative is the Commons Here?

My articles are licensed under Creative Commons and I’m not at all concerned about their respectful re-use. Well not unless I find you’ve written a book and made a hell of a lot of money using my time and effort and then I might just hunt you down and ask for my share in person like Tony Soprano. No I wouldn’t do that. Well maybe I would… after all, some offers just can’t be refused.

I’ve had a Creative Commons license on my blog posts (well this site) for some time now and I’m happy enough with sharing any information here. Not much of what I say is entirely original thought so what is there to lose? But I have to say I don’t offer the same level of licensing to my photographs and drawings - as I’ve noted on those relevant pages below the images and in the applicable footers.

I’m not sure where the Creative Commons spirit runs on this one. It should be possible to part with the information here without including the images - which at the time weren’t a part of the website at all. It would be disappointing to have to not include that content on this site simply because somewhere in legalese there are footholds created by the associated Creative Commons provisions.

If you haven’t noticed the site has included some extra features over the last few months. On the right hand side of the home page you’ll notice there are featured photographs and featured drawings. These link directly to the photo gallery and the drawing gallery which both have their own syndication feeds if you’re interested in being updated. Also, in the richfooter you’ll see that I’ve put my current reading and am trying to follow up with a revue article as books are read. Right now I’m a little bogged down though so can’t promise I’ll finish reading the current one in a hurry.

I just thought it might be appropriate to post my position on the content of those galleries. Have a happy new year everyone (as if I won’t post again before then).

This entry was posted on Saturday, December 29th, 2007 at 1:25 pm and is filed under business. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

Articles are licenced under a Creative Commons Licence but copyright of images is retained by © Steven Clark 2007 - 2008

2 Responses to “How Creative is the Commons Here?”

  1. Matt Robin

    December 30th, 2007 at 9:57 am

    >>”Have a happy new year everyone (as if I won’t post again before then).”

    Haha, it’s only the 29th!!

  2. steven

    December 30th, 2007 at 10:23 am

    ahh close enough in this household matt :)

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