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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: 3, Insightful) by Justin Case on Sunday August 02 2015, @02:09PM
If you want to keep a secret, don't tell anyone. Once you tell someone, they might tell someone else. This simple reality should be obvious to everyone since the beginning of time. Any opposition to this "natural law", as another commenter remarked, is nothing more than a disguised attempt to control other people's behavior -- doomed to failure because other people are at least as clever as you are and will work to circumvent your controls.
Why do people "create content" in the first place?
A. They want to get rich.
B. They want to alter the information stored in someone else's brain, perhaps by sharing knowledge, a story or opinion. A subset of this is persuasive messaging: romantic, political, commercial...
Protip 1: For every rock legend or movie star there are a million who didn't get rich. Forget about it. Copyrights aren't your golden key.
Protip 2: Restricting other people's freedoms is in opposition to your interests. You want your message to propagate. Copyrights are not your friend, except when you haxor the copyright system to preserve freedom (GPL).
(This message is NOT copyrighted.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 02 2015, @03:20PM
Woooosh!
Try reading RTFA before running your mouth.