Comments on: Licensing blog posts, Creative Commons, and license abusers

By: sakthi

sakthi — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:07:08 +0000

I am sorry , i misspelled the Author name:

Thanks to Aral Balkan and for every one!

By: sakthi

sakthi — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:05:28 +0000

Hi Oliver!
Thanks for the info! Thats what i searched for

Now my org blog is powered with CC license logo

By: communicatrix

communicatrix — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:52:09 +0000

I have nothing to add to the discussion about splogs save to toss my own annoyance onto the pile. Skeevy lowlifes.

I do want to express my delight over finding that CC plugin, however! I was wondering how people got it onto feeds, especially, and now I know. Into the “to do” pile it goes. Thanks!

By: JesterXL

JesterXL — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:07:41 +0000

“Any exposure is good for an artist.” — George Carlin

The problem is that not all scrapers are created equal. Some of my content has been utilized in chunks, removed from context to form large blog entries of mix-mashed Flash & Flex content. While I am linked on some of these splogs, it’s not accurate to see that I wrote that, or rather you did.

While others, they are just straight copies of my RSS feed without little design direction given vs. places like dzone.com & Digg which actually take time to provide good presentation.

To me, the whole point of Creative Commons was to bequeath peace of mind to the consumers of the CC content, not to protect your content from being abused. There are plenty of splogs out there making ad revenue on your content and NOT sharing parts of that revenue with you. Regardless, those ARE places inadvertently advertising “Aral Balkan” and what he writes, so I’d argue it’s not worth purusing major enforcement unless it’s a big name site. …unfortunately, the sploggers know this too…

By: antischokke » WordPress-Plugin: Creative-Commons-Configurator

antischokke » WordPress-Plugin: Creative-Commons-Configurator — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:35:04 +0000

[...] einen Artikel auf Aral Balkan zum Thema Creative Commons-Lizenzierung von Blogs bin ich auf das WordPress-Plugin [...]

By: Make scrapers work for your blog at Aral Balkan

Make scrapers work for your blog at Aral Balkan — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:11:32 +0000

[...] displaying a Creative Commons license on blog posts and I’ve added the license to the feed also. More. The Make scrapers work for your blog article by Aral Balkan, unless otherwise expressly stated, [...]

By: Aral

Aral — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:08:27 +0000

Hi Oliver,

Thanks for the links — wow, I missed that whole controversy! :) Didn’t realize Molly was involved.

Very interesting… reading the threads now.

By: Oliver Rowlands

Oliver Rowlands — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:42:12 +0000

It is a wise decision to go for the Attribution non-commercial license.

Did you ever hear about the Flickr/Creative Commons/Virgin Mobile Australia botched ad campaign? Some people found out the down side of the commercial license the hard way:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ggunson/731012326/

This is what can happen if you release your photos under the commercial CC license.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sesh00/515961023/
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/231370/Virgin_Mobile_Australia_sued_for_using_teen_s_photo_from_Flickr

Though in this instance Virgin were clearly in the wrong as they did not have a model release nor did provide the correct credits to the photographer.

Better safe than sorry…