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I love sharing…. oh yeah, I am a bit of a fan of talking too. I talk a lot…. but sharing really floats my boat for some reason. When I learnt about “web 2.0” a few years ago it was the sharing thing that really got me in. Creative Commons is about sharing. Well that is the way I have always seen it anyway and really when you are talking about your reasons for writing about something then the way you see it *is* the most important thing. Even more than sharing my own things I like sharing other people’s things. Some would say that sharing other people’s things is not sharing at all but rather, it is taking. And that is the difference really between the Creative Commons licensing model and the traditional models of copyright.
When you share some one’s CC content you know you are sharing. When you share some one’s traditionally licensed content it is likely that you are also taking from them and they would call it stealing. I think it is a bad thing for people to steal from others and I reckon that most people don’t want to get in trouble for stealing. Worse would be stealing from the government. I reckon you could get in a lot of trouble for that. I work for local government as “Web Development Project Leader”. It is a long title I know but it is relevant here because my job title aptly describes what I do.
Because I am responsible for developing a web site for a local government organisation and I am worried about people getting in trouble for stealing and I like sharing so much, I thought I could use CC licensing on the local government website that I am developing. That journey is new to me and in fact new to most people in local government organisations. So in the interests of sharing (did I mention I like sharing…..) this blog is about sharing experiences, thoughts, links, documents and whatever else might come to the party on my journey towards a local government organisation “Stepping Into the Commons”. Soon I hope to help people to share the content on my organisation’s site legally and easily without them unknowingly or otherwise being guilty of stealing.
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Hey Rhys, love the post. Really sums up the idea of CC as a tool for sharing nicely. I love the reasoning for using CC on a government site, I do hope that more sites will take this approach in the future.
Too cliche for me to say, “Thanks for sharing?”
I was initially put off CC a few years back. I used to have my images “stolen” without accreditation and even had people claiming my images as their own. In this topsy turvy world, allowing people to use my images, encourages people to be open about their use of my images, and they’re usually put to great use.
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Hi Rhys,
Fantastic idea for your WEB206 blog!
On Sky’s side of the board we have been discussing CC and copyright and I am with you on this one.
I empathize with Paula – I wouldn’t like it if someone claimed my work as theirs.
However I do like the idea of sharing.
For example with my blog I have been thinking of placing my own CC license on there (similar to Rhys’s so that people know they are free to share, remix or whatever they wish, to any images or content I have placed on the site.
If I didn’t want my content shared I would not have placed it on a publicly accessible site.
I do hope that credit will come back to me but you never can tell and of course, you cannot enforce it.
I’m definitely looking forward to reading more!
In fact, I think it should be compulsory for people to place a CC license on their work at the time of publishing (if they are not doing so under a contract as a business that is). That way the reader will know how far they can take that content and share it.
Cheers,
Tessa