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Copyright, CC and Licensing

This is a bit dis­turb­ing, but not com­pletely sur­pris­ing. Some issues have arisen regard­ing the reuse of designs sub­mit­ted to the CSS Zen Gar­den. These issues have not been brought to the fore by the design­ers (who are all, I believe, 100% behind Dave Shea on this project, its goals, and the par­tic­u­lar issue at hand), but rather by an “indi­vid­ual” who decided to copy a few of the designs for his own dis­tri­b­u­tion, and only thought to ask if it was OK after the fact.

I made quite a lengthy post in the com­ments of Dave’s entry, so rather than re-post my thoughts here, I’ll let you read them in con­text.

This item was posted by Dan Rubin on Wednesday, September 10th, 2003.

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5 comments on “Copyright, CC and Licensing”

  1. Posted by Didier Hilhorst on Wednesday, September 10th, 2003.

    I think you made a very sen­si­ble state­ment. I do indeed agree that Dave is tak­ing on more respon­s­abil­ity than he has to. This of course is nice but I think we are uli­matly respon­si­ble — each designer individually.

    We (before­hand) agreed to the license he estab­lished by sub­mit­ting our work and as such there is noth­ing much we can do. It remains nev­er­the­less an inter­est­ing case and has gen­er­ated much discussion.

  2. Posted by justin on Wednesday, September 10th, 2003.

    I too was unde­cided about attach­ing a CC to my site, but ulti­mately decided to do so with the hope that some­one would actu­ally notice the CC and read what it is about. With regards to the afore­men­tioned statement…I couldn’t agree with it more. Kudos to all who have been involved in the CSS Zen Gar­den project and to Dave especially.

  3. Posted by Justin Goodlett on Thursday, September 11th, 2003.

    On another note regard­ing ISSN assign­ments, the ISSN Net­work is not giv­ing out any more ISSN’s at the moment due the the large vol­ume of requests. They are unde­cided as to wether or not they have the resources to main­tain such a large data­base of blogs reguest­ing ISSN num­bers. A com­mit­tee will meet in late Octo­ber to dis­cuss the mat­ter further.

  4. Posted by Dan on Friday, September 12th, 2003.

    Justin: That’s quite inter­est­ing indeed. I’m very glad that I reg­is­tered SB (as well as my firm’s cor­po­rate blog, Power of Speech, which should launch shortly after webgraph.com, which is com­ing soon…)

    Of course, they could def­i­nitely do with an upgraded reg­is­tra­tion sys­tem — the HTML form on their site has been offline for ages, and I’m sure it was never tied into their data­base in the first place. They need a redesigned PDF form (which could also be inter­ac­tive) and a new web-based reg­is­tra­tion sys­tem tied into their back-end sys­tems, and then all they need to con­cern them­selves with is ver­i­fy­ing each sub­mis­sion. I need to find out who to speak with in their offices…

  5. Posted by Justin Goodlett on Friday, September 12th, 2003.

    Dan: I agree 100%. The reg­is­tra­tion process is out­dated and very frus­trat­ing. A month after sub­mit­ting my appli­ca­tion I received two emails from two dif­fer­ent persons…neither of which made any­sense. I hope they have this issue resolved soon. If you make any head­way please let me know. Thank you.