What is IP and whose interests does copyright protect Re: [LINK] web site choices.

[Roger Clarke]

Marghanita wrote: ...
>so, back to webpages...I have a copyright notice stuck on the bottom 
>of the Ramin Communications site, to protect them from other IT 
>consultants, historians - people who would profit from my work. But 
>at the same time, I hope to influence people with the ideas.

Reducing the information overload, I reckon that CC 'by-nc-nd' is the 
appropriate licence for circumstances like yours (and mine), i.e.:
-   Attribution please
-   No commercial use
-   No derivatives

It's the *least* liberal CC licence, but far looser and more 
user-friendly than 'All Rights Reserved' kinds of licences.

Base version (US):
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/au/

Australian licences:
http://creativecommons.org.au/licences
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.1/au/


Re video, yes it gets *far* more complicated, because there are 
layers of rights, and layers of licences.  But this is exactly what 
the 'Creative' part of 'CC' is about, so they're supposed to be doing 
that kind of thinking on behalf of all youse creative types, and 
saving youse the trouble.  Me, I know nussing about video!!!

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