Re:Something really scary is going on in Germany
by jamesjporter on Thursday December 06, 2012 @03:46PM
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Would it work to just put your blog under a permissive distribution license (Creative Commons or the like)? I know nothing about the German legal system or the exact phrasing of this law; could someone with more domain knowledge comment on how this would interact with licensing terms?
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Re:Something really scary is going on in Germany
by Tichy on Thursday December 06, 2012 @04:02PM
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I don't know the exact phrasing either. Also not sure if everybody wants to put their content under CC.
I think the government could make this messy enough to even foil the CC plan. For example they could set it up like GEMA for music - there would be an entity distributing the money and collecting it on behalf of the content providers. Besides, is there a standard way yet to announce CC content? That would be necessary to make it work for search engines.
Re:Something really scary is going on in Germany
by atuttle on Thursday December 06, 2012 @05:18PM
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AFAIK this is the way to go: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Marking_works
Re:Something really scary is going on in Germany
by zmmmmm on Thursday December 06, 2012 @09:29PM
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And then when your blog quotes or links to some other site (let's face it, a huge amount of blogging is discussion of news stories ...)? - they can't put that under CC and they might even be asked to pay for the privilege of linking to the story - they basically get hit both ways.