Chris Hardie - Copyright Notice

I didn't even consider having a copyright notice on my website until recently, when I started adding some of my artistic creations to the site. I became strangely worried that someone (or something, like Altavista's image search) would suck up these creations of mine and re-use them on another website for another purpose without my permission (not that I think a copyright notice will prevent the unfeeling 'bots from chomping through my site, copying and caching it as they please). Why I didn't have this concern when it was just my thoughts in text, I can't say, but after doing some research, I think a copyright notice is necessary.

If one were to think about it in ideal terms (as I try to do), all I really want is to prevent other people from using my thoughts/creations/publications without giving me credit, or using them in "bad" ways even while giving me credit. The ideal solution to this is that people would re-use my work in only "good" ways and give me credit in doing so. Unfortunately, there are too many possibilities for misinterpretation of what I mean by "good" and "bad", and so I must resort to an official statement.

Peter Suber phrases such a statement rather nicely, and so I re-use it here as my official copyright notice.

"I hereby give permission to copy, print, or distribute any documents [and graphics] from my web site, provided (1) that each copy makes clear that I am the document's author, (2) that no copies are altered without my express consent, and (3) that no one makes a profit from these copies without my express consent.

This permission does not extend to mirrors of my web pages. Do not put even unaltered copies of my pages on the internet (web, usenet, ftp, etc.) without my permission. Until we negotiate, please use a link rather than a copy."

If you'd like to read more about copyrighting web documents, I recommend the following:

There's an interesting article over at ApacheToday.com about a neat technical solution to keep people from copying images off of your site.

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õîðîøèé ñàéò!!! posted by lawrence kohlb on Jun 14, 2007 at 05:01:41 PM

Stay warm and left through the room the week before circulating and watching us as julie publicly and thoroughly humiliated me clean. Fuck i heard noises from the shower she had just taken. Fuck i heard noises from the shower she had only pretended this before but for this scene to work she knew tha.

Protecting my Material posted by Tiara on Jul 04, 2001 at 06:36:26 AM

Hi,
I wanted to know how I could prevent people from stealing my poetry, which is located on my webpage.
Thanx

copyright posted by Gregory Remington on May 11, 2000 at 02:39:19 PM

I love your copyright statement and would like to negotiate it's use as my copyright statement for certain web sites I'm working on. One such web site is at http://www.everythinglocal.org I have been giving art away to people for years out of pocket for various causes and feel its time to use a copyright statement similar to yours. A verbatim copy would be perfect. Good work ;- ) Best Regards, Greg

Copyright and on-line material posted by Juniper Chew on Apr 22, 2000 at 02:26:01 AM

Hi,

I came across your webpage because I was looking for information on preventing caching of my own works on-line.

I do share the same concerns as you in this connection. I've been looking for a solution, but nothing has proven to be 100 percent bullet-proof. One may put a copyright notice on one's webpages, but it sure doesn't prevent visitors from pilfering, if they want to. On some of my webpages, I use a DHTML script which prevents the "right-click" mouse menu from popping up; which in turn makes it harder for the visitor to view my HTML code or save the pictures and sounds. But, again, this isn't foolproof prevention. I've seen a lot of expensive solutions touted over the internet over the years, but they're always asking for way to much in fees. Ok, I've said too much already.

Best wishes,

Juniper Chew

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