2008/12/23 Wilhelm Schnotz <[email protected]>:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Gregory Maxwell <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Judson Dunn <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:

>>> That's good news, thanks for doing this research! I bet there's some
>>> confusion abotu what self-created means, but I can't think of a better
>>> term for it really. "creation" is such a nebulous concept for many
>>> people.

>> Is "I am the sole author" more clear?

> Not really, some folks think simply scanning an image makes them the
> "sole author". (of course the scanned image is a derivative of the
> original...)


Despite much effort by media companies, people still don't think
copying is inherently wrong. The internet folk cultures tend to settle
on something sort of like CC by-nc-sa, where you count as "creator" of
something even if the base image wasn't originally yours.

I wonder what wording would work:

"I created this from scratch"
"I am the creator and copyright owner of the original base image"

something else?

"I own" is too often taken to mean "I own the book I scanned it from"


- d.

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