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If i put a pic that came from the internet to my blog (where ever it is), is it against the law? coz i’m planing on to make some cash from my blog. I ain’t gonna sell the pics or something. Lets say i write bout something and beside the article i put also a pic to make my blog more colorful.
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Yes, it is generally against the law.
You need the consent of the owner of the photo to do that, unless the photo is stated as part of the creative commons. -
YO Boblets thx a lot mate.
“the photo is stated as part of the creative commons,” could you give me the example of that “creative commons”? -
This is actually a very interesting subject – here you have three links that might help a little.
Copyright
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright
copyleft
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft
Creative commons
http://creativecommons.org/Remember – there is a lot of people making free software out there that we all use daily. Putting some of your own photos or artwork into the creative commons is not such a bad thing.
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Lorelle at WordPress has some great info about this:
Covers seemingly all aspects of this issue. What’s legal, what’s not, and more.
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Ah, I see that you are helping someone else with another problem I’m struggling with, boblets.
Is there a post explaining from scratch how to post a CC license on a WP blog?
I mean, starting from ‘widget’? I don’t know from sidebar, you see . . . yet.
I have the license HTML from CC. But it’s just sitting here like a brand new car delivered to the garage of a nitwit who doesn’t know how to drive. . . :(
Will not ask you for any more help for a while, if I can just sort this one out.
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Hehe, occiori – that’s fine, don’t worry – happy to help.
I am beginning to think your blog is not here at wordpress.com, but at wordpress.org?And do I get you right when I think that you want to share your contents?
If all you want is to state how and who can use your contents, you only need a text widget in a sidebar and put a little snippet of code in there. Simply choose the type of licence from here, and paste the code into the text widget:http://creativecommons.org/about/license/
(if that’s the case, that makes me very happy -there are too much paranoia going on :-) -
Ah – I see.. I think I misunderstood a little —
go to design -> widget, pick a text widget, paste the licence code in there, and voilá! -
‘go to design -> widget, pick a text widget, paste the licence code in there, and voilá!’
Perfect. THANK YOU.
My blog isn’t published yet, boblets. Can’t — until I’ve de-glitched it.
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You can as many do link back to the source with a clickable link to the source page. If anyone emails you saying it’s theirs, then take it down.
coz i'm planing on to make some cash from my blog.You can’t advertise or profit from your wordpress.com blog. http://faq.wordpress.com/2005/12/08/adsense/
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That’s “if anyone emails you saying it’s theirs,” so we can take it down. But what if they want me to pay for it? kinda hard.
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Please don’t recommend the “post first, take down later” approach – ignorance of copyright is not a defence, and people have been sued for doing just that. Nor is including a link to the original document sufficient. Both are covered in the Copyright Myths document:
http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
You’re correct about advertising, but our ToS doesn’t prohibit profiting from your WordPress.com blog. If you can do it without spamming we’re all for it:
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Yes, that’s why i want to know bout copyright, coz i don’t want someone to sue my ass..i don’t want to get in to trouble, including copyright..thats gonna b sux.
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Well, then the safest route is to only use what you have created yourself, or something that is clearly stated as creative commons, or are in the public domain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain -
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