Well technically there very much is an automatic form of copyright, at least in many countries.
So ideally the starting point should be that everyone knows, and should assume, that they have very limited rights to your work, unless they see a creative commons license that gives them extra rights. No creative commons license gives people fewer rights than copyright, its all about giving more rights, and what conditions you attach to those rights. Unfortunately its copyright, and what can legally be gotten away with copyrighted material on the internet, that causes much of the underlying confusion. So even when I go on about creative commons a lot, much of what we need to know, many of the rules of the game, are set in stone by legal precedents over copyrighted works. The over-exploitation of copyrighted works in the past has not helped the public to understand these issues much either. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In [email protected], "Bill Cammack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Of course, that would be a drag to have to add something to every single > video that one makes, but without there being some kind of automatic copyright, a "guilty > until proven innocent" in the case of any media that anyone posts to the internet, that > seems to be the only option to HOPE to keep your license connected to your media. > > Today was the first I ever heard of a CC license being sent as information in a feed, so I > can assume lots of other people had never heard... HAVE never heard of that and aren't > going to hear about it. The point being that without some sophisticated knowledge A) > that creative commons licensing exists in the first place, and B) that there are certain > places you can or should go to look to see how media is licensed, if at all... embedded > information isn't going to be of much use in making the average joe aware that they're not > allowed to do XYZ with your media. This is especially true when context is removed from > your media once or several times over. > > -- > Bill C. > http://ReelSolid.TV >
