Echoes

Yesterday I was reminded of a few pithy truisms about Ye Olde Internets: Never post anything on the internet that you aren’t comfortable with it existing forever. On the internet, copyright is largely irrelevant. APIs and the ecosystem they support provide interesting mechanisms for discovering both new works and infringement.

I’m pretty liberal with usage rights. In general, if someone isn’t deriving income from the reuse of something I’ve created, then I don’t request compensation, only credit. I’ve considered using a blanket Creative Commons license for [most of] my stuff, but haven’t researched it enough to understand all the ramifications. For now, everything is ©, All Rights Reserved. This has proven to work well. I used to create textures for the indie mapping scene. Occasionally I’d get reports from people who’d played a game that reused my textures without credit (or compensation), but in all cases a few phone calls or emails resolved the situation.

Yesterday I saw a Google link to a Flickr DNA page for my photos. From there, I clicked to a related Technorati page with references to my photos. Curious, I dug in a bit more and found these minor references:

Simple, nothing crazy or too profound, but interesting to see what other people think is interesting.

Comments

January 16
2:12 AM
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Joan Ramon writes:

Hello.

My name is Joan Ramon and I'm the editor of www.qmenta.cat.

I used your 1000 ft picture, as you know. I referred to your flickr page and noted that you are the one who has the rights. I really don't know how those things (rights) rules (but I'm learning) so I thought I was'nt doing anything wrong.
But if I did it, please tell it to me and the picture will be erased and, a note explaining my error will replace it.

Please, excuse my poor english. I hope I have not said something too much wrong!

Thanks.

January 16
11:46 AM
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ydnar writes:

Hi Joan! No worries about using the picture. How’d you find my post?

January 17
1:56 AM
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joan ramon writes:

Just the same way than you found mine... technorati... and statcounter... Thanks for all...

Just for your information, QMenta.cat is about politics and its written in catalan... I have also an spanish version of it, at www.qmenta.com where I used your picture too.

I suppose that you don't speak catalan, so let me explain that I used your picture in a post where I "congratuled" myself for achieving 10.000 load pages.

Thanks for all.

January 17
6:05 AM
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ydnar writes:

Congratulations on 10000 page views!

February 14
5:53 PM
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Mike Cane writes:

Back then I wasn't grabbing people's pics from Flickr. In my new blog I think I have done some of that, but I always link back to the original.

I don't really care if people take my original pics. As long as it's non-profit (like my blog is), that's fine with me.

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