Comments on: Pooling Our Online Resources

By: Creative Commons Scares Bad Web Designers : Alexia Golez

Creative Commons Scares Bad Web Designers : Alexia Golez — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:01:15 +0000

[...] I wrote a post yesterday about how licensing content as Creative Commons is good thing. Robert also had a piece [...]

By: Alexia

Alexia — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:31:17 +0000

@Michele Understandable… True, the spirit of CC can be sullied by people who don’t play ball, but there are myriad others that benefit from it. Those that don’t respect the conditions that CC content is published under are very likely the same sorts of people that use copyrighted material without the rights holder’s permission.

By: Michele

Michele — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:27:32 +0000

The problem I’ve run into in the past is where people don’t respect the license under which content is made available, so I’ve now restricted the copyright on most of my content

By: Robert Synnott

Robert Synnott — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:14:23 +0000

Think before you share…

Alexia just made this post. Now, up to a point, I’d agree. If you want to, certainly you should share your work, and let others make use of it.It is, however, very important that you be careful exactly how you……

By: Alexia

Alexia — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:06:59 +0000

@Maryrose: I guess it’s all about where the comfort zone is. I barely publish photos with people in it, unless it’s a public function or the people featured would like to see it online. I can see the value of sharing photo content on Flickr of inanimate objects or scenery.

By: Maryrose Lyons

Maryrose Lyons — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:35:22 +0000

Actually I’m in the process of unsharing. As you know, I pretty much live online, I’m easily found. All my pics are on flickr to share with my family and friends. But recently I decided I don’t want to share. Don’t want my entire life laid out online. Kind of contradicts the mysterious me I’m cultivating offline!

By: Alexia

Alexia — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:04:45 +0000

@Robert: I’m not saying share pictures of one’s kids. That would be idiotic. But rather, sharing content that people feel comfortable gifting to the community.

By: Robert Synnott

Robert Synnott — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:02:41 +0000

I’d agree up to a point, but it’s important to be careful here. There have been cases where people have found their work, including pictures of themselves and their families, being exploited by large companies; as they were under a version of the Creative Commons license which allowed that, they had no recourse.