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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/31/copyright_hub_launch/
The web has grown up without letting people own and control their own stuff, but a British-backed initiative might change all that, offering a glimpse of how the internet can work in the future. Their work will all be open sourced early next year.
Britain's much-anticipated Copyright Hub was given ministerial blessing when it finally opened its kimono today, boasting a pipeline of over 90 projects covering commercial and free uses.
A handy new site – Copyright done right – has also been launched, explaining what it offers. The initiative has sparked global interest.
Today, it turns out that most people actually do want what they’re missing from today’s internet: property rights (or property-ish rights) for the digital stuff they post to the interwebs. But many have found that copyright just doesn’t work for them. The Hub aims to build rights-aware layers on top of the internet, so that people can track how what they make public is used, much as DNS added ease of use to naming protocols and VPNs added privacy standards to the basic bare-bones internet.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 02 2015, @10:06PM
"So - you upload an image of your cat - your car - your kids. And, I grab that image, because it's cool. I post it to a blog, where the image kinda supports my ramblings."
So you're a lazy asshole unwilling to ask permission for the work of others to be used where you want it to be used.
"I do attribute the image to you, but it's there on my blog. And - what? You force me to take it down? I can't go along with that. Yes, of course I can find other images of the cat - a car - or some kids. But your image just happened to catch my attention, and it does happen to support my blog in some way."
Not only are you lazy and a thief, you aren't even able to perform the same function another person did - make a photograph of a subject that is pertinent to the blog post you made.
According to your chain of thought, I could copy your entire blog, put my name on it and sell it and you would just have to f*ck off.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday August 03 2015, @05:41AM
Problems you have, with reading comprehension.
You're going to SELL it? That is commercial use. The moment you accept one thin dime, you lose the protections afforded a private citizen.
Now - who is the bigger asshole? You, or me?