After reading
Blogging Starter Checklist as noticed via del.icio.us popular list, I decided that I should step up and take a little action to protect my words. Rajesh Setty offers some other good advice to bloggers in his article; perhaps I should read it deeper. Anyway, I've decided to apply a Creative Commons license to my blog. Of course, any of the stuff I've quoted would likely fall outside of this license, but I do want it to be clear that my poetry is to be a least technically mine. You can follow the headlining link to create a license for your own blog. Here's mine:
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
How appropriate. The fortune I got with today's lunch:
The will of the people is the best law.
Definately not from China, but you knew that fortune cookies were an American invention anyway didn't you.
[creative commons copyright copyleft ]
3 comments:
About your copyrights and such, it's far easier to get your shtuff published on some form of paper which usually leaves behind it a specific date which proves without a doubt your originality.
'Course, in reality, as my friend steve says, nothing of interest is new. He, being a musician, pointed out to me in no uncertain terms that the music I work on is all derived from prvious compositions.
The thing is, he's right.
It is only at this deliciously bizarre time we live in that claim is laid on things long ago discovered, written, played, or in my case, painted.
Consider the Americas.
Columbus "discovered" the new world? How about the Norsemen a thousand years earlier? Or the Africans before that? Or the islanders from around Southeast Asia?
But, that's more a case of historical rhetoric, isn't it?
Getting back to copyrights, check more avenues of paper publishers and you should find not only places to publish (and therefore copyright) your work for free, but you may also tap into something more amazing.....
Paycheck$,.....
good luck!
And now, for this small piece of information I've given you perhaps a small piece of information from you?
Is it really all THAT cold down there?
C'mon. Be honest....
Thanks for the comment. I added the creative commons stuff mostly "cause it's there". I fully admit that nothing I or anyone else creates was born from a vaccuum, but it would be nice to get at least a nod if someone wanted to use a bit of my own cultural remixing to their own ends. You don't really have to do anything other than record it to be copyrighted, though there are greater requirements to proving a copyright. Publishing is fun and all , but I really do write this stuff mostly for myself; don't really care much what happens after that.
P.S. - It's surprisingly warm and humid. [chuckling] I just don't like declaring exactly where I'm at, but I do see the occasional tropical cyclone.
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