[cc-community] creative commons advice
drew Roberts
zotz at 100jamz.com
Tue Dec 30 21:23:11 EST 2008
On Tuesday 30 December 2008 18:06:25 Ching, James wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, that’s good to know, I think I may keep it simple and
> go with a site wide license to start as my main reason is that I want the
> users of my site to know and feel that if their content is republished at
> all, they would get acknowledgment. Appreciate your comment and example,
> thanks again!
My thoughts would be BY if you expect the content to be throwaway in nature or
BY-SA if you expect the content to be more substantial. A lot of us are
unlikely to use BY for substantial works. Or have BY and BY-SA us user
profile options.
>
> -James
all the best,
drew
>
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>
> James,
>
> I belief that your application and use of the cc licenses for the
> generated content would be perfect. You can either let the user select
> the cc license or you can select a cc license yourself and let users of
> your application adhere to that license.
>
> Personally I would go for the first option, but if you do want to limit
> the users to one license please consider using a liberal and Commons
> promoting license such as CC-BY or CC-BY-SA. An example of a service
> utilizing the CC-BY license (see the bottom of the site) is Identi.ca[1]
> (a microblogging service such as Twitter, but available as free, open
> source software).
>
> [1] http://identi.ca/
>
> All the best,
>
> grtz
> BjornW
>
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> Ching, James wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > I wanted to get some advice on a project that I’m working on which I’m
> > not entirely sure if it would be a good candidate for cc or not. I’m
> > building an application which allows users to come to the website and
> > write reviews on businesses, events and etc, utilizing those reviews, I
> > am going to provide a tool that allows people to create widgets to
> > re-publish these reviews on blogs, their own websites and etc. After
> > reading more about cc, I was thinking that applying a default license to
> > reviews written on my site would be beneficial for both sides, the
> > reviewer and the users utilizing the content on their website or blog.
> >
> >
> >
> > I appreciate any advice and/or comments. Let me know if this is the
> > correct place to post this or if the web forum would be better?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> >
> >
> > -James
> >
> >
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