I suppose it amazed me that everything you write online, even little comments are copyright, even status updates i guess. Crazy stuff.
Anyway I recently got an email from a company in germany asking to use my artwork on deviantart on there website, which provides art prints and posters to international customers. The deal was that they would be allowed to print and distribute my work and i would get paid a certain percentage of what the customer paid, i.e I think it was 75% of it. Let's be honest who doesn't want to get a bit of extra cash here and there, so I went ahead and agreed.
It's sort of amazing to me that a small time hobby artist like me could have copyright on my work, yes I know it's work i created but at the same time it was more of a hobby. Bottom line is I now fully understand my rights to my works and the creative commons licenses there are.
Who would have thought this weeks tutorial could be so useful hehe.
Took me forever to wrap my head around the creative commons on the australian website here. I suppose the bit that got me was the tiny differences and alterations that cna be made to suit someones copyright needs. Amazing and mind boggling to me :)
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I never knew about Creative Commons either but had used shareware before without realising that the creators of the software had provided the material free of charge not without their knowledge (i.e someone stealing and allowing free download) but because they'd like to share it. Kinda noble when you think about it.
I suppose it is noble, but it's really crazy how everything is copyright and it's so easy to get into serious trouble.
Hey, wouldn't it be good to make up a universal symbol that meant 'not copyright/for public commons/for sharing'? Like the opposite of the copyright symbol so that you could just quickly add it and not have to type out in full that you want to share your work freely when you upload it. Assuming of course that you don't mind everyone using your work! But kind of like ensuring that the internet remains a public commons like it was originally intended to be, challenging capitalist imperatives.
What about a copyright symbol with a cross through it like those non-smoking signs or the ghostbusters signs, ha?
yeah that is really interesting to realise the practicalities of creative comments, and see how they actually do work in real life, because genarally when i think about posting something online I think that the content no longer belongs to me, especially with uploading photos to facebook, where they own or at least co-own all the information you post.
I found the timing of this copyright information strangely perfect for me. Like you, i started selling my work online, only i am selling my music. While filling out the relevant forms and pages i was overwhelmed with the amount over information needed to complete the copyright section. Who wrote it? Who recorded it? Who published it? etc. At the time i found this very annoying but the week's material put everything in perspective. All i have to worry about now is digital piracy. Gotta love the internet
When I get home the first thing is to turn on my laptop and check my Facebook, when I get up I use mobile to check the temperature. I think media is everywhere today and it full of our lives. We rely on media, people even use mobile to pay for the ticket on the bus in Japan. We just can not image what is going on with our life without media; media not only involved into people’s working also within leisure life. I think it is good thing that media become convergence, it is more portable and convenience for people to get the information.
That's cool that your work is getting recognised and people want to use it. I guess if you do stuff like that you probably think about copyright alot? I know though anything I post or write I don't give copyright a second thought because I don't think anybody would find it the least bit valuable to copy.. but I wonder if anyone has ever done a sneaky copy and paste of anything i've written on my 'fun' blog. Probably not but it's a crazy concept!
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