[Imc-g8-2005] photosite + CC

GarconDuMonde gdm at fifthhorseman.net
Sat Jun 25 07:32:57 PDT 2005


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hi

ionnek wrote:
> One is that we have been talking for a long time about adding a creative
> commons tag instead of the present reference to copyleft in i think the
> editorial guidelines (we wrote them before creative commons was around. 
> :-). Just never got around to decide on the details and actually do it!
> I am aware of the need to protect articles and images through the
> discussions in the nuj freelance branch, and would definitely support a
> licence that excludes free use for commercial purposes unless companies
> are asking for permission. I actually like it if corporate media use
> indymedia as a resource, provided they stick to the rules (quoting the
> source, asking for permission...). And in order to make the rules clear,
> I think its very useful to have the creative commons tag rather than a
> not-so-specified libel as copyleft.

you describe here "attribution" = quoting the source

> mini mouse wrote:
> 
>> If that's a imc concensus I suggest we change the default copyright to
>>
>> "All content is free for reprint and rebroadcast, on the net and
>> elsewhere, for non-commercial use, unless otherwise noted by author."

http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/ImcUkCopyleft#Demo_form

this page (minus the #Demo_form part) has a lot of info about past discussion.
it might be the best idea to use a simple, little form such as this one on the
site. but then we'd still argue over which one was ticked by default (probably
best if none were, and the user was *required* to choose one).

- --

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