Related to my previous post about the use of images and intellectual property rights, do you think the enforcement of copyright law will be one of the obstacles in the development of knowledge-sharing culture? Isn't it Web 2.0 is a space for collaboration? In the Networked Creators chapter, Rainie and Wellman (2012) asserted that networked individuals are creating content and collaborating with other networked individuals in ways that can expand and enrich collective knowledge and solve problems.
Creative Commons (CC) provides a way for both promoting knowledge sharing and collaboration while at the same time protecting the rights of the content creators.
"Creative Commons has been described as being at the forefront of the copyleft movement, which seeks to support the building of a richer public domain by providing an alternative to the automatic "all rights reserved" copyright, and has been dubbed "some rights reserved." (Source: Wikipedia)
And today, I decided to add a CC license to this blog. :)
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I can see how this might be an issue. I do like that many places has allowed people to share or use the information from their blogs or graphics as long as it is not for profit. The whole idea is to share information and help others and I know that I go online to search for direction all the time from household repairs to work related issues. I wonder how many people would truly pursue legal action though? I am sure that the cost would be large and especially in an international realm.
ReplyDeleteYes, I was wondering as well about number of cases. But you'll never know right?
DeleteI also think that other than the legal issue, what's more interesting about creative commons is that it teaches us on how to be a more ethical 'prosumer' and respect each other on content creation or re-creation.
Nadia - Great idea. I never thought of assigning CC license to a blog. I usually use it for lesson plans and the like. I'm definitely going to use it in the Knowledge Sharing project. Quick question, what uses do you think people will have for our blogs that would need this license? If people are using it for critique, research, or commentary, it qualifies for fair use anyway.
ReplyDeleteYou're right, Michelle! :) So far I haven't shared anything that requires the use of CC. I think it would be more useful for us once we started our knowledge sharing project. I was thinking that I would like to post the video presentation for the project here and maybe some use of personal photos.
DeleteThere have been situations in which (individuals? creeps? marketing companies?) have taken (stolen) posts verbatim from bloggers, essentially replicating their blogs without credit. Using CC on a blog says that you do not condone that behavior. Not sure it would give you any actual recourse if someone violated your license (are we really going to sue?) but at least it clearly communicates the author's wishes.
ReplyDeleteYou're righ, Dr. V! I've seen replication of contents in different blogs without knowing who is the original creator of the content. Can we say that one of the negative sides of Web 2.0 is how it promotes 'plagiarism' acceptance? I think what I like the most about CC is how it educates the 'networked creators' to be more ethical and respect each other better. Related to legal action, I don't think I am going to sue but I think the license will give added benefits in enforcing the online social norms to the violator. Just my two cents :)
DeleteSweet! Tahnks for this information. Do we use this for every blog post? Or just use it once for the entire blog?
ReplyDeleteGood. Like you said, even we will not sue anyone violate our intellectual property rights, cc at least reminds people the existence of intellectual property rights.
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