Showing posts with label website. Show all posts
Showing posts with label website. Show all posts
Sunday, 3 June 2012
Facebook - to be Strip Mined?
Australians are well aware of the strip mine. We dig and send a lot of coal and iron ore from strip mines.
Some pundits are saying Facebook will be strip mined - to obtain value to justify the share prices,or they will fall. They might anyway!
This link to a recent online article offers some thoughtful insight.
Definitely worth reading ,if you are one of the one in seven people that are users around the world.
http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/4037870.html
Friday, 10 July 2009
Creative Commons Licenses
Are you worried about your blog work getting used elsewhere? And getting no credit for it? Someone else pinching a photo or three off Flickr, Picasa, Google images or Webshots? Have you done that yourself when desperate for a suitable photo?
It sure happens. Have a look at : http://www.creativecommons.org.au/licences as this system is applied in Australia. Similar systems operate elsewhere around the world too.
This is a system which tries to fairly sustain ownership of creative work - written, scientific, visual, audio and so on to the creator of the work through a lowered level of copyright. If you like, allowing use under certain conditions and purposes provided they give attribution to the original creator of the work, for mostly non-commercial use.
You can join and claim ownership of your work. As easy as putting a license on your blog or website.
It is a sensible and useful option where you can assert ownership of the creative work, without getting all tied up in copyright disputes. Something that has happened recently over a photo that seems to have been used almost everywhere this person's photo appeared, in both commercial and non-commercial uses. Was getting a bit crazy.......yet this system would have overcome almost all of the issues raised by the purported original copyright owner [they never really established that either].
We all seem to use a variety of sources in what is written or created, and this option can offer a degree of fairness to all - creators and users.
Have you any experience with the system? Do you attribute any sources used in your blog or website? Please share your ideas.
It sure happens. Have a look at : http://www.creativecommons.org.au/licences as this system is applied in Australia. Similar systems operate elsewhere around the world too.
This is a system which tries to fairly sustain ownership of creative work - written, scientific, visual, audio and so on to the creator of the work through a lowered level of copyright. If you like, allowing use under certain conditions and purposes provided they give attribution to the original creator of the work, for mostly non-commercial use.
You can join and claim ownership of your work. As easy as putting a license on your blog or website.
It is a sensible and useful option where you can assert ownership of the creative work, without getting all tied up in copyright disputes. Something that has happened recently over a photo that seems to have been used almost everywhere this person's photo appeared, in both commercial and non-commercial uses. Was getting a bit crazy.......yet this system would have overcome almost all of the issues raised by the purported original copyright owner [they never really established that either].
We all seem to use a variety of sources in what is written or created, and this option can offer a degree of fairness to all - creators and users.
Have you any experience with the system? Do you attribute any sources used in your blog or website? Please share your ideas.
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