{"id":1540,"date":"2015-10-06T18:17:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T22:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2015-10-06T18:17:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T22:17:15","slug":"stop-is-go-and-up-is-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/?p=1540","title":{"rendered":"Stop is Go and Up is Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

You are driving down a busy thoroughfare when you\u00a0see a stop sign and act accordingly.\u00a0 Your fellow citizens driving in\u00a0similar type cars\u00a0see the very same sign and read it\u00a0as \u201cGo\u201d. Perhaps you find yourself entering elevators clearly seeing the word ” up” while others\u00a0just as literate as you are\u00a0looking at the very same signage and\u00a0just as clearly see the word “down”.\u00a0 Can you imagine the mess?\u00a0 There would be enough accidents to keep every lawyer in\u00a0town busy forever.<\/p>\n

Sounds ridiculous? Sounds stupid? Sound like a story Hollywood might concoct for a really bad movie?\u00a0We couldn\u2019t agree more. Well it\u2019s happened. Looks like someone didn\u2019t do their homework or maybe just\u00a0came late to the party. Most likely a court will decide unless one party backs down.<\/p>\n

OK, after reading this far, you\u2019re wondering what the heck are we talking about? Well\u00a0there’s this big dispute going on. It\u2019s between the Creative Commons (which\u00a0if you read this column regularly you know is not one of our favorites) and Adobe\u2019s Behance platform. Seems they\u2019re both using the same symbol for what appears to be two opposite meanings. You can read all about it in this article<\/a> on PetaPixel.com.<\/p>\n

The symbol in question looks like a zero with an interior slash (that usually denotes a zero rather than the letter \u201cO\u201d) within a circle. So it looks like the copyright symbol, \u00a9, but instead of the letter \u201cC\u201d the circle, it\u2019s been replaced with a zero<\/em>. In the Creative Commons galaxy,\u00a0that means there is no copyright in the image and anyone can use it. In the Behance\u00a0galaxy however,\u00a0the very same symbol\u00a0means that all\u00a0rights are\u00a0reserved by the creator (That\u2019s the creator of the work, not the omnipresent Creator of the Universe.) So it appears one means you can use for anything and the other means no use what so ever.<\/p>\n

Confusing? You betcha. We can\u2019t wait to see who wins out. We wish we could say that we\u2019re making this one up, but after we stopped laughing long enough, we realized that not even a sci-fi\u00a0author\u00a0could make this stuff.<\/p>\n

Our preference? Avoid\u00a0giving your work away<\/em>. Your odds of getting future work from giving your work away gratis may be about the same as hitting it big on a scratch off lottery ticket.\u00a0Stick with the traditional Circle C (\u00a9).\u00a0 Everyone knows that that\u00a0symbol means.\u00a0You can\u00a0let everyone know, that this is your copyrighted work and that you enforce your creative rights as\u00a0granted to you\u00a0in the US Constitution and given teeth by a little something we like to call, The Copyright Law<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You are driving down a busy thoroughfare when you\u00a0see a stop sign and act accordingly.\u00a0 Your fellow citizens driving in\u00a0similar type cars\u00a0see the very same sign and read it\u00a0as \u201cGo\u201d. Perhaps you find yourself entering elevators clearly seeing the word ” up” while others\u00a0just as literate as you are\u00a0looking at the very same signage and\u00a0just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,100,15,5,20],"tags":[46,112,485],"class_list":["post-1540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-be-aware","category-in-the-news","category-legal","category-paperwork","category-stuff-you-should-know","tag-copyright","tag-creative-commons","tag-petapi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1541,"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions\/1541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecopyrightzone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}