Creative Commons announces the "Public Domain Mark"

http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/23830

by dotBen • 16 years ago

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zbanks• 16 years ago

It would be cool if governments could acknowledge this mark so it can be used in earnest.

hammerdr• 16 years ago

According to its website, Europeana is sponsored by the European Commission which is an arm of the European Union. I'd say that is a hefty acknowledgement from a "government" (or, rather, a supernational organization).

But, yeah, I would love to see the LoC adopt this mark for its digital collection. It'd increase visibility and give the mark an air of legitimacy for the United States.

angusC• 16 years ago

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Derferman• 16 years ago

Shouldn't you be using CC0[1]? Your blog posts are automatically covered by copyright when they are created. I think the Public Domain Mark is only for works already in the public domain.

However, I am not entirely sure about this, so clarification would be great.

[1] http://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/

russellallen4• 16 years ago

I'm a big supporter of the Creative Commons project, but this is a good example of the problems that CreativeCommons face.

Without wishing to be narky, your use of this mark is inaccurate. Your material is not in the public domain, it is copyrighted to you. You should instead be using CC0, which is the appropriate mark for works still in copyright where the author wishes to disclaim all rights.

(And note that some part of copyright in major jurisdictions cannot be waived - look up moral rights)

This is why this new Mark will be fabulous for widely disseminated works for use in a low value environment. For a work to be properly usable in high value environments, such as for a film script, the players will still need to do expensive due dilligence. As the page for the public domain mark states, 'The work may not be free of known copyright restrictions'.

This isn't a criticism of the CC efforts, just a description of the problems created by the mess intellectual property is currently in.

ars3• 16 years ago

How do you know his material is not in the public domain? By using this mark isn't he relinquishing copyright?

You are just assuming he wants copyright, but it seems to me he doesn't.

lars512• 16 years ago

If it becomes popular enough, maybe in ten years it will have a unicode code point, and will be found in common fonts ;)

nostromo• 16 years ago

c⃠ (c⃠) is supposed to work, but I don't think any browsers support the combining marks yet. (http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.unicode.o...)

parbo• 16 years ago

c⃠

It "works" in Chromium, but selecting the text is borked, and so is navigating this text field after I pasted it..

yurylifshits• 16 years ago

This is just great! I hope Flickr will adopt it immediately. Right now you can not choose "public domain" as a default option for your Flickr account. So we do not have any public domain pictures from there. Attribution is ok, but what if you want to modify a picture or make a collage? Making a clear attribution for Flickr is not always easy without adding clutter to your UI.

Looking forward for huge increase in public domain pictures :)

jeremyswank• 16 years ago

The digraph mark N© has been in use for many years by the groups The Tape-beatles and Negativland, for two examples. It was devised by the British artist Mark Pawson in the late 1980s. (I'm not saying anything against the new mark, just offering this up because it might be interesting to some.)

regularfry• 16 years ago

It might have helped the article to have, you know, included an image of the mark. Just a thought.

Creative Commons announces the "Public Domain Mark"

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