"Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry"
Those were the fist words I read when I landed on this site that explained a very Ubuntu philosophy of copyright to me. We all know that is it almost impossible to police the Internet, but we can appeal to the good and the decent in us when we post something that we created.
Creative commons is a copyright licensing method for websites, blogs, photographs etc with All Rights Reserved and Some Rights Reserved options.
I don't know how this would hold up in a South African court, maybe someone can tell me, but I think in many ways cyberspace is a world of its own, with its own rules and regulations. It is a pity people only ready about Internet porn and bomb recipes - they don't read about people across the globe linking together and forming online communities, not based on gender or race or social status. These communities are usually based on shared interests.
Have a look at Creative Commons - it makes you wish the real world lived up to these kind of ideals.
Those were the fist words I read when I landed on this site that explained a very Ubuntu philosophy of copyright to me. We all know that is it almost impossible to police the Internet, but we can appeal to the good and the decent in us when we post something that we created.
Creative commons is a copyright licensing method for websites, blogs, photographs etc with All Rights Reserved and Some Rights Reserved options.
I don't know how this would hold up in a South African court, maybe someone can tell me, but I think in many ways cyberspace is a world of its own, with its own rules and regulations. It is a pity people only ready about Internet porn and bomb recipes - they don't read about people across the globe linking together and forming online communities, not based on gender or race or social status. These communities are usually based on shared interests.
Have a look at Creative Commons - it makes you wish the real world lived up to these kind of ideals.
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