Comments on: Once You License Your Work with Creative Commons, the Cat’s Out of the Bag

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:21:54 +0000

I Live in Canada and I made HEADBANDS using LED light strips from CHina. After doing research online
I noticed someone in California made a multicolred HEADBAND called Too-cool Rainbow Headband. Along with a full page display of how to make his version of the LED headband which is not an original idea nor is it on the market. Also there is thousands of LED headbands on the market in general with the conventional LED LIGHT on the front.and Then i noticed He had some kind of icon badge that said license. it said

Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike (by-nc-sa)
This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. Others can download and redistribute your work just like the by-nc-nd license, but they can also translate, make remixes, and produce new stories based on your work. All new work based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also be non-commercial in nature.
Read the Commons Deed | View Legal Code
this botyhered me because i want to make my version of LED head bands in Canada and now i don't know If I am within my rights to do so especially when noone is making them so i can buy one for myself.

By: Alexei Yavlinsky

Alexei Yavlinsky — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 07:57:27 +0000

Hi, very interesting article and thanks for mentioning ImageStamper in the comments! I built the tool to prevent exactly the kinds of problems the author mentions in this blog post. I also wanted to confirm that the long term goal of ImageStamper is to provide its basic functionality for free for the foreseeable future.

By: Jeremy Brooks

Jeremy Brooks — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:26:19 +0000

drewe, I'm curious as to how you prevent abuse by simply changing the license. It seems to me that people who would ignore the CC license terms are going to ignore an All Rights Reserved license model as well.

By: ian

ian — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:46:02 +0000

Thanks for that post, Fred. I enjoyed your video. The table you have on that page is a nice tool for handling images. I'd say the same for imagestamper, except in their terms of service they reserve the right to start charging a few for their service. Imagestamper is not an open source initiative in itself. cheers

By: drewe

drewe — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:41:20 +0000

Wow. That's a good interpretation. I stopped licensing most of my photos after I found significant abuse (and probably more I didn't find) of the licensing format. This just makes it more concerning!

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:09:06 +0000

The Creative Commons license would be pretty useless, and pointless, if it could be revoked.

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:50:37 +0000

ImageStamper.com is a great resource for tagging Flickr photos as licensed at a particular time. You signup for an account on there and start collecting "stamps" that establish an image was licensed in a particular way.

We used it for all of the photos in our 'A Shared Culture' video:

http://creativecommons.org/videos/a-shared-culture

Good luck!