[jivan]

Hello all,
       I would suggest all of the people who take photographs so lovingly file them under some creative commons license.

http://creativecommons.org/license/ . Its needed as quite a few sites & forums use your work & then are copyrighted by them without putting any effort. The FAQ is off-line atm so using google search http://www.google.co...lient=firefox-a

There are many a forum & site which give a freehand to the brand themselves but not the creators of things. For e.g. Google Video Terms & conditions :-

http://video.google....py?answer=31704

Similarly is the case with few forums. Interestingly, there are quite a few forums like yours which have pretty decent forums rules http://www.gourmetin...?act=boardrules which should be celebrated In case if you guys have any questions about creative commons, feel free to post here, although these guys also have a mailing list info@creativecommons.org

Another thing, its part of a broader cultural issue of free education like wikipedia and MIT courseware :-

http://sciencecommons.org/
http://ocw.mit.edu/
http://www.free-cult...freeculture.pdf
http://www.debian.org (GNU/Linux distribution)

http://creative.linux-delhi.org/
http://www.cc-India.org/

Comments, suggstions, questions are all welcome.

Disclaimer :- I am not affliated with any of the groups/sites at the moment but will be joining them. Use creative commons extensively in all my work.

Cheers

[noflylist]

Right. Forgive my simple question, but when I post my photo, What do I write in copyright tag? Creative Commons License?

Because the license I want to use have long text:

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommo...s/by-nc-nd/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.

Edited by noflylist, 20 May 2007 - 10:41 PM.

[iwanttogoback]

but aren't all the photos here marked as copyright of the author who, i believe, is the person who uploads them?

can someone explain to me the pros and cons of a creative commons system?

[jivan]

noflylist, on May 20 2007, 10:33 PM, said:

Right. Forgive my simple question, but when I post my photo, What do I write in copyright tag? Creative Commons License?

Because the license I want to use have long text:

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommo...s/by-nc-nd/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.

You don't need to use the long text you can simply use

This work is under http://creativecommo...s/by-nc-nd/3.0/ which is good enough.

iwanttogoback, on May 21 2007, 04:30 PM, said:

but aren't all the photos here marked as copyright of the author who, I believe, is the person who uploads them?

can someone explain to me the pros and cons of a creative commons system?

I have no idea but its safer to do that. Of course like every other system it has its share of pitfalls also.
http://en.wikipedia....reative_Commons does give an idea of the pros & cons and also related articles.
I don't profess to be an expert in copyright law but for me this seems to be a good way to atleast defend my work.