If you look down the lower right column of this blog, you’ll see reference to a Creative Commons license, and the phrase “Some Rights Reserved.”
What is that?
Creative Commons is an answer to the belief of many people – myself included – that traditional Copyright law doesn’t serve well all the needs of intellectual property ownership.
There are six different licenses, specifying different degrees of control and ownership.
The license version used on this blog specifies that anyone can copy and re-distribute the material in this blog, even sell it to others so long as they don’t alter it and so long as they credit me as the source of it.
Other versions let you specify, for example, that others can use your material but not charge for it.
Great idea, no?