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Re: Thursday, August 31, 2006
"I publish under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 License" With a name like that, you already know there has to be a better solution than licenses. Having to sort through a mess of licenses that let you do some things but not others, do not define specifically what can be done (is a person who has an Amazon associates account on their page a 'commercial user'? What if they use only 150 words, or just deep link to your photo, etc) and then the total and complete mishmash of poor XML and RSS feeds that define copyrights (most RSS feeds have horrible copyright sections). The solution has got to be a lot easier--a follow / no follow rule--a simple yes/no tag or even something in the robot.txt. You start trying to parse rules and you get people who misspell 'ShareAlike' or something and parsers begin to fail. What I really would have liked was a new technology that came out that was open. If you use this tech for your content, it is in the public domain. If you don't want your content to be in the public domain, than don't use this distribution method. But until then we'll continue fighting around the edges.
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