2009.01.20

Change has come

The swearing in of Barak Obama as President of the United States, today, has brought with it many changes that haven’t enjoyed the publicity they deserve.  Perhaps things would be different if this were a slow news day.

Thanks to Andy Kaplan-Myrth for bringing this to my attention.

From the newly launched whitehouse.gov website, comes this page about copyright on the site:

Copyright Notice

Pursuant to federal law, government-produced materials appearing on this site are not copyright protected. The United States Government may receive and hold copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise.

Except where otherwise noted, third-party content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Visitors to this website agree to grant a non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free license to the rest of the world for their submissions to Whitehouse.gov under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Where has Barak Obama been all this time???

2008.12.04

What does ‘non-commercial use’ mean to you?

Creative Commons is conducting a study of what ‘non-commercial use’ of a creative work means to people.  I was involved in a discussion on this topic some time ago when Bob Goyetche and I learned that podcast.com was applying advertising to our our content on their site (see Is podcast.com making money from your podcast).

Be sure to participate in the survey.

Hat tip: Terrence McLean.

2008.10.14

Is podcast.com making money from your podcast?

Last week I received a series of emails from Glenn Gaudet of Podcast.com.  Each email was specific to a different podcast that I produce.  I followed the link to one of my podcasts on their site and found six sizable advertisements flashing around a small window containing episodes of my podcast.

I was more than a bit put off to discover that podcast.com is making money from my creative work, particularly since my podcast web site indicates that the content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share-a-like license.  They never once notified me that they had attached advertising to my podcast and never offered to share the revenue with me.

I emailed Glenn to ask him to remove the advertising from my page.  He replied saying that he can’t remove the advertising so he’s removing my podcast.  I followed up by suggesting that it’s incumbent upon him to check all podcasts that he’s listing on his service to be sure that he’s not violating any other Creative Commons licenses (or All Rights Reserved licenses for that matter).

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