23 Feb
2006
23 Feb
'06
6:36 a.m.
Jan Depner escribe:
Maybe in your country. In the US, copyright is
automatic and
doesn't even have to be registered (since 1998). Registering copyright
can help you to defend it but all you have to do to claim copyright is
to "publish" the work. In the legal sense "publish" means to issue
the
work on any medium with a claim of copyright on it to someone other than
yourself.
I think in most countries copyright is "automatic". It wouldn't make
sense to give a legal basis to CC licenses otherwise. What you do
licensing your material as CC is "refusing" to the "automatic"
copyright up to the level you decide.
That's also why things need to be released to the public domain
explicitly.
As an example, text in my blog and my Flickr pictures are licensed
CC-by, this means anybody can use them personally or commercially and
that I only ask for attribution. I couldn't do that on a Copyright
basis.
I don't mean that anybody's reusing anything, maybe my material is not
interesting enough. :)
Cordially, Ismael
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