Please support Creative Commons
Tuesday, 29 December 2009
The Twitpic Terms of Service currently reads:
By uploading your photos to Twitpic you give Twitpic permission to use or distribute your photos on Twitpic.com or affiliated sites All images uploaded are copyright their respective owners
I sent the following to the generic email address publicly available, even though Twitpic a service I only use as a content consumer, not as a content producer:
Creative Commons is an organization that has published a set of standardized, but evolving, copyright licenses intended to increase content sharing on the internet. As a content producer, you can choose who can use your work and in what manner. For example, this blog is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License which allows normal people to repost whatever I've written as long as it is used non-commercially and they cite where the content came from.From: Eric Garrido (eric@ericgar.com) To: support@twitpic.com Cc: Bcc: Subject: Please support Creative Commons Reply-To: Twitpic, Please consider supporting Creative Commons by allowing new users to specify to license their content by default under one of the available licenses, and specifying per-work that a CC license may or may not apply. Creative Commons makes for a more useful internet and should be actively encouraged where there is a democratized content creation arena. Please consider making the internet even better by allowing your users the choice of Creative Commons. Thanks, Eric Garrido
Creative Commons is basically a legal democratizer for the internet. It allows you to share the content you’ve published publicly, since all content is immediately covered under a strict copyright law unless otherwise specified.
Please think about publishing your own work (on Flickr, your blog, or elsewhere) under one of the Creative Commons licenses.