I've been publishing most of my work (weblog, photos, etc.) under a Creative Commons license lately. It allows more user rights than a straight "all rights reserved" copyright, so it's more like "Some Rights Reserved." I was thinking that Caedes could allow the option of licensing an upload with a CC license. The author could choose which license they would like for their image, and of course, the default would be the current "This image copyright [author]. All rights reserved." But CC is very cool, and I for one would gladly distribute my images with more rights for the downloader.
For example, if I wanted to allow people to download and share my image, modify it if they want to but only if they give me credit AND share it under the same license, and not for commercial use, I would use a CC "Attribution-ShareAlike-NoCommercial" license. This allows flexible use of my images. And it's not like my desktops are worth any money anyway, I just want to share them with people, and this is the perfect way to do it for me. I think that if people learned about CC, others would also like to do the same.
The CC licenses are so diverse that no matter how many or how few rights you want people to have, there's a license for that. The common thread is that you want to share your work with the world, and let people know what they can do with it in an easy-to-understand straightforward "no fine print" way.
So, check out the Creative Commons site, try making a couple custom licenses of your own, and see if this is something you'd like to see as an option on this site. What do you think?
For example, if I wanted to allow people to download and share my image, modify it if they want to but only if they give me credit AND share it under the same license, and not for commercial use, I would use a CC "Attribution-ShareAlike-NoCommercial" license. This allows flexible use of my images. And it's not like my desktops are worth any money anyway, I just want to share them with people, and this is the perfect way to do it for me. I think that if people learned about CC, others would also like to do the same.
The CC licenses are so diverse that no matter how many or how few rights you want people to have, there's a license for that. The common thread is that you want to share your work with the world, and let people know what they can do with it in an easy-to-understand straightforward "no fine print" way.
So, check out the Creative Commons site, try making a couple custom licenses of your own, and see if this is something you'd like to see as an option on this site. What do you think?