Youtube surprise
I started out the day today checking that the the projector works and ended running some youtube on the wall in the office. First I youtubed “red cross” and saw Jamie Collum with Uganda Red Cross. Then hoping to find some cool action from Norway I searched for “Red Cross Norway”, but to my great surprise I see my own name in one of the top search results!
It turns out someone, reading my blog, has created a slideshow of my pictures based on my blogposts and pictures from flickr. It mainly focuses on my trip with Strangeways, click here to see the video on Youtube.
Licence breach
There’s only thing I’m not to happy about, is not being attributed or linked to in the description of this video, which the licence of my work actually demands. This video is actually a complete breach of the licence I have been using so far, as it does not even allow derivative works.
Even if it is a bit irritation, I did like this slideshow, and I can’t see any good reason for not allowing people to play around with my photoes and work like this. Therefore I have now changed the licence of both my pictures on flickr and the content of this blog to the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 licence.
Previously my stuff was licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No derivative works 2.0.
The conclusion is, you are more than welcome to copy and play around with my stuff, as long as you link back to me and share it under the same conditions.
I have had this problem so many times it’s getting almost intolerable. Anyway, the YouTube page now has a link to your blog when I just looked at it. Incidentally, talking of Creative Commons, take a look at this:
http://crrc-caucasus.blogspot.com/2008/05/creative-commons-for-caucasus-real.html
Onnik Krikorian
May 29, 2008 at 11:35 am