After months of taking advice from the AP, buying paper clips, and constructing a cadre of NYU Law students to sue Gawker, Gothamist, and every trust fund blogger for copyright violations during the Kimmel Occupation, we’ve decided to change course. Aditi Rajaram, Wesley Chen, and the Fly the download.php?sid=8ffbfabefb33d5309b2daa48a71a7de2&gid=2200259392&ref=search”>Free Culture Club at NYU showed us the light; all rights reserved © is archaic and is not built for a modern news source. All original content on NYU Local is now distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 3.0 license. Woot?
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Woot!
Props! CC is the way to go.
I wonder if the NC part of it though still technically means that Gawker/AP/others are in violation since these are commercial news outlets using your information to churn a profit?
We license all of our photos for our clothing lines under the exact same license (CC-A-NC) as well.
I resent being called a trust fund blogger.
But in all seriousness, I can’t believe we weren’t CC before. Woo.
It’s a switch in title more than actual practice. I think the concept of Creative Commons for web content is so great and obvious that it’s really just a matter of publication officially accepting them at this point.
Yeah! This is fantastic news!
Okay yeah I don’t see the importance here. Like I get why it’s important, but does this practically change anything at all?
MAYBE I SHOULD TAKE INTRO 2 DIGITAL MEDIA HUH
Lawrence Lessig is the shit.
BY-SA (or BY for that matter) would be more in keeping for “Free” and once NC is in the mix, according to some, for profit corporations will not be able to use it anymore than All Rights Reserved works.
all the best,
drew
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That’s a fun announcement, but your writers probably own the copyrights to their works. So you didn’t really do anything.