posted by Dr.Pew @ 3:54 pm
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I tend to find myself slightly out of step with my surroundings. While this is quite possibly due to my innate leftfootedness and nurtured rightfootedness, I chose to ignore this incongruity by drowning out the offbeat with tunes that fit my own rhythm. A potential insomniac, I’ve an inherent penchant for white nights and bright-eyed dawns. I revel in the transitory stages of life and dance when I fear most to stumble. Despite being educated to PhD level, I’m severely doordyslexic and invariably lose my way in carparks. I’ve an affinity with the road less travelled, admittedly largely due to my warped navigational skills. It’s an inadequacy that’s set in motion most of the greater things in my life. My libertarian mindset clashes with the inherently Darwinian genetic imprint of those constituting the societal realm. It’s a realisation that keeps me awake at night. To avert stresses and frustration, I climb up active volcanoes or engage strangers in deep conversation. Such actions are strangely soothing. I trust life to be rather inconsequential in the grander scale of things. This belief only intensifies my zest for life.
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Dunno really. I went through a phase when I was interested in this, mostly because I wanted to slap a (c) and my name and date next to everything because I thought it looked cool. From what I remember reading at the time there didn't seem to be a hard and fast rule as far as copyright goes and I read lots of articles advising you to simply seal up your creation and mail it to yourself and then retain the unopened envelope, thus creating a record of when the work was ‘created’ (or at least evidence of the date it must have been created before). The main message seemed to be that copyright protection exists from the moment of ‘fixation’ and not via any registration process, in fact I read that there hasn't been a single case settled on the basis of such registration companies’ primary function.
Anyway, in terms of actual registration I guess a website is more difficult since it’s such a dynamic medium (unless it's January, that is). I suppose you could just place a copyright oneliner after each entry and maybe email yourself a copy of the content of the posting as well in order to create a 'time stamp' (since you can manipulate a blog post date / time stamp in any way you want, at least with Blogger / Wordpress blogs etc this might provide more unequivocal ‘proof’, plus a back-up of your stuff?)
There’s some light reading here :-)
Zus,
een Public Forum is niet alleen een concept maar ook een definitie. Dus, alles wat op een Public Forum verschijnt is vrij, tenzij je iemand verplicht een on-line overeenkomst te onderschrijven dat er copyright op is. Voorbeeld: je publiceert een gedicht op je blog. Tenzij je zelf vermeldt van wie het is en waaruit je het gehaald hebt - met akkoord van de auteur - kan iedereen het overenemen en later claimen dat het gedicht het zijne is. Dit zijn dingen die inherent zijn aan het www en blogging, en gelukkig maar.
Al het andere moet in een website staan, daarvoor zijn de regels anders en daarin kan je ook beter je copyright statements kwijt.
Kus.
Hm... I'd heard about that "mailing yourself your demoCD or writings via snailmail to get a timestamp" idea before, from a friend who does it with his own music, which he publicizes on the web. That might not be such a bad idea actually.
Dad, where exactly do you get this notion from that a blog falls under a different set of regulations than a standard website? Can you send me a link to the source? I'd be interested to read this.
Hmmm me wouldn't be me, if not adding anything here. On the web there is a copyright thing. In the days of internet it is indeed a hard thing to find, but it exists. As we know the boundaries are changing... So a pretty clever professor in the States invented Creative Commons. It is an alternative to full copyright (a thing that is pretty beyond this century). You can read all about it here: http://creativecommons.org/ and get yourself a licence here:
http://creativecommons.org/license/
(which you can copy paste in your sidebar)
But as Roel says: this doesn't prevent people from stealing your lines. (few months back someone stole 'my about'!! :) )
So in that matter you can best indeed or put your stuff at SABAM. Or cheaper: write all your things down, post them using a real stamp and a seal, send it to yourself and NOT OPEN the envelope until the possible trial... The date on the stamp and the seal proof that the letter was sent on a certain date.
The digital copy probably dates a later time...
Sabam is obvious the better choice. But certainly not the cheapest.
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