February 22, 2006

Share and share alike  

This also seems like a good time to mention that I'm conveying all of the material here at locussolus under an Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license. I don't know why I've never formalized this licensing in the past, given my interest in the subject and strong feelings about content sharing (maybe any license at all seemed to restrictive?), but this seems like a good idea in light of my sister's problems last week.

MORE: One question: does anybody know if comments here are protected under Creative Commons? Who owns that content?

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Jonathan Versen("Hugo Zoom")  {March 7, 2006}

I'm wondering what the commenting companies like Haloscan say-- I'm guessing they could make a case that they own the content, insofar as Haloscan erases older comments with the free version of their software. Have you looked at the EULA for your commenting software to see what they say?

paul  {March 8, 2006}

I haven't checked it out, but I would be absolutely shocked if MT thought they could make some kind of claim to any of the content on this site, comment or otherwise. But there's a big difference between MT and something like Haloscan, which actually stores the content for you...

At this site, all the comments are stored on server space that I pay for, at a domain that I pay for, so it's hard to see how it could belong to anybody but the person making the comment or me. For my part, the only claim that I would make on comments is the right to display them here, permission for which is implicitly given when you press "post" (!)


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