Common Visual Design Elements of Weblogs

Submitted by Clancy on April 17, 2004 - 21:54.

Elijah Wright of Blogninja has posted the paper (.doc format) he and Lois Scheidt wrote for Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs. The collection will be coming out in mid-June, so I'm thrilled that Elijah and Lois have done their part to generate sufficient hype. :)

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the other one is there too.

Submitted by elijah on April 29, 2004 - 21:38.

Just to pump the Blogosphere collection a little more - I stuck the other paper from our group up on the web too.

Clancy, I can not possibly express how glad we are that the project is using very liberal copyright terms (authors retaining copyright, it appears at this point...). I was convinced that early messages had said that the collection was going to be published under Creative Commons licensing - am I just imagining things?

--elijah

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No, not imagining.

Submitted by Clancy on April 30, 2004 - 17:37.

We are licensing the collection under a CC license. From the copyright contract:

3. The Editors hereby notify the Author of the intent to distribute the Compilation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial 1.0 License, which includes the following terms: No Derivative Works, Noncommercial Use Only, and Attribution Required. This license does not limit fair use or other rights.

Since the authors do retain the copyrights to their individual articles, they (you) can use a different CC license if you like, such as copyleft, by-nc-sa, whatever--as long as you don't go all rights reserved, as that would conflict with our CC license.



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conflict with CC license

Submitted by cel4145 on May 5, 2004 - 01:29.

"as long as you don't go all rights reserved, as that would conflict with our CC license."

Okay. I'm a little slow and just catching up on this thread :)

But actually, it would not conflict with the CC license for Elijah or anyone else to publish a version with All Rights Reserved. CC licenses are for the copy obtained by someone, not all copies which exist. Thus, if you look at the print version of Free Culture, all rights are reserved. One cannot do with the print version what can be done with the online, CC licensed version.