See this logo? It was created by cube Inada or c3 as we know him in Second Life, Larry Rosenthal in real life. He is a long-time digital artist and coder, creator of various properties and content in Second Life and other virtual worlds.
It is designed to provide an alternative to the Creative Commons regime that deliberately discourages coupling creativity with commerce by consciously not allowing a license in their list that says "take a copy but pay me money". While there is a CC license that allows commercial use, it is allowing it *for the person who took your free copy, not you* -- unless you simply dispense with the CC "license" crap entirely -- which I can only encourage you to do.
You don't need any "license" to prove copyright; it is inherent. It's a good idea to register copyright if you are serious about your business and expect to fight lawsuits, but the Berne Convention does ensure that your copyright is inherent. Real life is based on copyright tightly coupled to commerce. The purpose of copyright is to promote commerce. Commerce is good and normal and helps people make a living.
The online regime of Creative Commons, which I call Creative Communism, defeats the efforts of ordinary people to make a living online, harming their livelihoods in fact by creating a regime subsidized by the wealthy to browbeat and peer-pressure people into giving away content for free in some sort of altruistic utopia. This concept is the hand-maiden to the California Business Model (cube, send me that lawyers' link again!) that serves big platforms like the Google-owned YouTube or Facebook, whereby people are encouraged to register for free and upload content for free -- and any questions about copyright are pushed on to the creator to defend to enable these platforms to have "safe harbour" from liability to lawsuits (enabling them to make more money). So if someone copies your stuff and uploads it, you have to fight a DMCA takedown war or litigate for your copyright. Good luck, if you are poor and don't have a lawyer.
So don't joint the failed cyberutopians of web 1.0 and web 2.0, come along with us to web 3.0 and get paid.
This new CCC logo doesn't somehow magically guarantee a payment -- the SL interface does that so use SL!. But it helps ENCOURAGE and PROMOTE the idea of paid content online, which isn't evil, isn't feeding rapacious evil big corporations as the Creative Communists always creatively and cunningly claim to get you to sign up, but which helps ordinary people like c3 get paid.
If you are a share-bear, you don't have to freak out about copyright somehow "interfering" with your desire to share, because Tim Berners-Lee and many other Internet pioneers already defaulted the Internet technologically to enable sharing, making it technologically impossible due to "technological determinism" to *not* share. Various devices and javascripts that make right-clicking and copying *harder* are defeated by "Print Photo" on your computer keyboard. Anyone can take a copy and not credit you. You were supposed to be magnanimous, helping mankind, and not caring about that, right? Oh, but you *did* care because you do this for vanity, and not payment.
Ok. Want to be credited but want to share? Well, maybe the silly and ultimately destructive Creative Commons regime is good for you, but think about it. What, you don't even want a dollar? Not even a donation? You're not willing to write a sentence yourself on your website that says "Pay me for a copy and credit me correctly?" You can write that, you know, without joining the silly "commons" that rich people fantasize about using poor people's work.
Second Life is different; SL enables you to put settings to "copy for free and transfer if you like" "take a copy and pay me" automatically. And you're credited, as the system automatically indicates the name of the person who made the creation and it automatically copies along with the entire object. No arranging of licenses, no fuss no muss. All automatic. Right click, pay the avatar money, take the copy -- which is either transferable to enable "first sale" rights -- your one-time sale of that one copy -- or put on non-copy.
There's no reason why this regimen can't obtain on the Internet now. That is, sure, there are plenty of reasons -- the technocommunist ideology that prevails everyhere; the net nannies of the "progressives", Electronic Frontier Foundation which actively undermines copyright and actively promotes payment-free distribution of content. There is a huge lobby fighting paid content and the livlihoods of ordinary people like you and me trying to make a buck online. They try to make their technocommunism appealing by making it seem like it's a fight against "big evil record companies that exploit artists" -- but that's ridiculous in this day and age way, way past the era of Napster.
c3 has a brilliant logo with a simple concept: creativity -- community -- commerce. Read his website for more on these great ideas.
He also devised a logo you can use and put on your website -- get a copy from his website for better quality.
I've put it up here to show my support and offer my articles here for sale for $5 a piece, payable on PayPal or inworld in a tip jar, links to which I've provided. This should be simple, people. PayPal exists, as long as the anarchist thugs of Anonymous don't DDOS it;
Every blogger should have this on his website. Instead of providing even a paragraph, let alone the entire site, to various news aggregators that make money off your content you've provided for free with their ads, you should put this logo up and encourage at least donations if not fees.
People who make photographs, content for SL, they should be all the more enthusiastic about a "take a copy of you pay me money".
To put up a permanent item on the Typepad page, you have to have a dedicated photo site, and then put it in the HTML script widget for custom HTML script and drop it in the content box.
I figure c3 would not want gadzillion people linking back to his original of this automatically with every click on the picture as it might overwhelm the Wordpress site. Or maybe he does? c3 let me know.
And if you can make the HTML that would render this better in that small space, I'll replace it.
;)
ill make a smaller version for ya. is that what youd like? a smaller jpg?
i say spread the meme by any (almost any) ways needed...:)
after 20 years of this craziness im broke but still punching.. so ill take whatever in food stamps i can get...
i do have a paypal :) probably one of the first....for the starbase stuff since 96-7 ish.
also.. i "wish" well kinda i was a "real coder" then i could have written myself at 3am some devious crap to ripp off creatives for 20 years... like a fool i only "evangelized" the knowledge that the medium had/ was changing....and that creatives needed to pay attention or else...
today its 'or else " to my chagrin.
fyi all---
http://www.core77.com/blog/columns/i_have_seen_the_future_and_i_am_opposed_18532.asp
kinda sums up what happened in design and content in the last 20 years... im sure Norman has a nice Apple house.... maybe i can use his pond...;)
the next 20 years? i see loop cycle rinse... but at MUCH hotter temperatures and with alot more folks getting shrunk....
unless... unless...
so any cash payments the universe will offer ill take gladly at larryr@cube3.com via paypal.
;)
consider it for logo services rendered...
ps - i would have coded CMT into VRML ISO standard in 95 if i could have... but it wasnt a "technincal" issue...one was told.... over and over for 20 years...
getting paid-- being valued-- not a technical issue...:) and THAT was im sure the real "dinner converstion" at the obama dinner of techlords...
back to my 1.00 bagel.
Posted by: cube inada | February 25, 2011 at 03:27 PM
Hi,
I think I finally got a resized smaller version in there, but it has lost its fidelity I think. I can't tell as I have a crappy computer here.
When I get paid myself, I will send you a contribution for the logo. It's great. And we should spread it everywhere.
Maybe put it inworld on a website advertising your blog?
Posted by: Prokofy Neva | February 25, 2011 at 03:52 PM
ah ok. i see you made a smaller one on the left... looks fine..
ill make one with a little more white bleed around it. ill place it.. maybe a sheet of them at the blogsite for anyone to grab...
ill upload a copy too into SL.. ill place it as a jog for grabs in a box at the main starbasec3 shop in minchau. good idea.
i should also place it at the marketplace store..lol sell it for 1 Linden. then i can afford that new rolex..lol
i saw an article by lanier about writers not getting paid a few days ago (might have been an older post)-i think i saw it at 1938media blog which i found through an old pal in nyc--i had also seen "lorens" name via your blog/twitters a few times..-- so i followed the links and read wht he had to say about stuff... funny- he seems to have "discovered" the whole net con for content makers in his blog posts from the last few months... i didnt get the "puppet" references though.
http://publishingperspectives.com/2010/11/are-writers-powerless-to-make-a-living-in-the-digital-age/
anyhow.. viva la living for the ? % who dont want to become their machines.
Posted by: c3 | February 25, 2011 at 04:40 PM
lol
i went to google the "CBM" to find the original tech-law story link..
http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/second_thoughts/2010/02/california-business-model-fail.html
is the top google spot... so now youve become your own reference.;)
ill look if i can find it ...but things do "disappear" on the web...one day most folk will figure that out too. When they stop believing in magic..lol
Posted by: cube inada | February 26, 2011 at 01:35 PM
cube,
It was a quotation from a lawyer speaking in a lawsuit, maybe the Veoh lawsuit, or a similar one.
You mentioned it in the comments to my blogs in the past so the link is somewhere in 30,000 comments...
Posted by: Prokofy Neva | February 26, 2011 at 04:37 PM
Found it!
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/09/scribd-sued-over-copyright-by-jammie-thomas-lawyers.ars
The string "California Business Model" does not occur. The *idea* is explained wonderfully, however.
Posted by: Prokofy Neva | February 26, 2011 at 06:30 PM
ah. good. i couldnt find it.. spent 20 minutes in google "relavance"...ugh
tried every string i could think of..lol found alot of lawyers and consultants talking social media...;)
Posted by: c3 | February 26, 2011 at 07:03 PM