This made for a difficult decision when choosing a blog. On one hand, I could care less what people do with what I post online. Since I rarely allow any of my personal thoughts and opinions to be splatter across the Internet, I figured I would chose a license that was the most accommodating to others. If for some reason, someone wanted to reference this blog, I'd say go for it! They could site me, but also change anything they wanted to -- no big deal to me. In this case, I'd chose the attribution license.
However, this seems to conflict with my beliefs about one's original thoughts. I think this is partly the reason I don't really express myself through the Internet. I have never felt the need to share with the world my ideas and opinions. I also am very skeptical about who reads what and what they want to do with my information. I don't know if it's that I'm a private person, I just don't like the idea of any stranger any where in the world reading...well, my thoughts.
So this leads me to the other hand. If there were ever a time that I felt it necessary to display my creation on the Internet (when it is not simply a blog of my thoughts or class responses) I would have to go with the attribution non-commercial no derivatives license. If my ideas were privy to anyone, I'd want them to know where they came from. I wouldn't appreciate the idea of someone seeing my idea or thought somewhere and passing it off as their own. I definitely disagree with the idea of altering my original creation in any way -- especially if it is being linked back to me. I have no idea what changes a person is making, and for them to site that with my work could be detrimental to my first idea.
All in all, I think it might take more than this license to get my creativity displayed on the Internet. I'm sill not sure how open I want to become with the world.
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2 comments:
Jen--
I agree with a lot of your points. The concept of licensing ideas on the internet is confusing... and I thought I chose a license that was totally restrictive, yet after class today it became apparent that I did not choose something as restrictive as what I had thought. I think perhaps these licenses give the ability to protect anything--blog, article, essay or picture.
I am also very skeptical about who reads what I write... and I believe that it is good to be that way. Someone taking your blog, changing it around and then still crediting you can affect your "image"--to future employers or other important people.
Jennifer: Good questions at the beginning of your post. In part, these are still open since its only recently that people have been putting a lot of their work - writing, video, music, etc. - online, and only even more recently that the online format might be the primary or only format for the work. I do think you're at the crux of things when you point out that one the one hand we think of blogs as ephemeral and open - anyone can reference them - and yet this comes into conflict with our ideas of originality and self-expression. I mean, you could post something on your blog and it could end up... who know where? And could be altered in who knows what way... and could still be attributed to you! So, as you point out, the attribution license may make the most sense for you.
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