Stephan Spencer's Scatterings

The Scattered Wisdom of a scientist turned web marketing virtuoso

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What to do about copyright infringement of your website?

They say that "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery." But not if you're a site owner! I've seen designs copied, content copied, even entire sites copied. It's so easy for someone to "view source" and take whatever they like, without regard to copy… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 06/20/2006 | Permalink

Comments (4)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Content, Web Design, Legal copyright, copyright infringement, copyscape, design, dmca, wayback machine            

Open Source - what's the point?

If you think that Open Source is about it being "free" in the sense of not paying for it, you're missing the point. It's about being "free" in the sense of freedom of speech and freedom to create and re-mix intellectual property, unfettered. Informati… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 03/24/2006 | Permalink

Comments (2)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Content copyright, copyright law, creative_commons, intellectual property, larry lessig, open source, open source software            

Move over Copyright, here comes Creative Commons

We've all seen websites that say "(c) 2004, All Rights Reserved" at the bottom. Now you'll hopefully start seeing the (cc) symbol, which stands for Creative Commons, and means that only SOME rights are reserved. Creative Commons is a legal concept cha… more »
Posted by Stephan Spencer on 06/28/2004 | Permalink

Comments (1)| Comments RSS | Filed under: Legal copyright, copyright_law, creative_commons, creative_commons_license, google_guide, larry lessig