Sister-Diane over at CraftyPod discusses Creative Commons licensing with attorney Martin Ertl and crafter/enthusiast Kim Werker. They talk about why Creative Commons is relevant not only to crafters, but to anyone who shares original work on the web. Photo by Creative Commons.
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A lucrative patent or a popular copyright can provide a creator’s heirs with solid streams of revenue for decades. Some great artists and inventors decided that they’d rather give the rights to their best creations to charity, though. Mental Floss takes a look at a few well-known bits of intellectual property that have found their
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TechDirt is reporting that last week the International Jack Benny Fan Club got some very bad news. Rather than allow the club with the Benny family’s enthusiastic blessing to digitally preserve some unreleased public domain Benny show masters that CBS has in its possession, the network is giving a thumbs down to the idea —
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The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved Victoria Espinel’s nomination, paving the way for a full Senate vote to confirm the nation’s first copyright czar, reports Wired. No Senate vote date was set immediately for a nominee who was applauded by both the “copyleft” and the “copyright.” Espinel is expected to have a key role for
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Chad Perrin: There are innumerable ways to make money without copyright – and, in many cases, people are already doing so and may not even realize it. For instance, for the most part signed bands use record sales solely to pay off debt incurred as part of their record deals for purposes of getting initial
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The New York Times: The two most precious resources for any small-business owner are time and money. That’s why when the subject of intellectual property comes up, many owners run in the other direction. They see images of expensive lawyers and use that as an excuse to ignore the topic, reasoning that it is a
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photo credit: Yandle Entrepreneur.com: “The copywriting outline provides a single tool where you record all the details about your product or service that you will need to produce compelling copy again and again. It’s also an evolving instrument that you add to as your product or business changes and grows.” Here are a few suggestions
TechDirt: A few months back, we wondered why it was so difficult to opt out of copyright. Soon after that, Creative Commons added its CC0 license, which gets you a long way towards putting your content in the public domain (there are a few issues related to it, but it’s better than nothing). With patents,
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ars technica: Creative Commons has officially launched a Web tool to aid content creators who want to publish material under the highly permissive CC0 license. The tool, which has been under development for over a year, has now reached 1.0 status and is accessible from the Creative Commons website. In December 2007, Creative Commons launched
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