I didn’t think it was possible, but I am now even more confused:<\/p>\n
Paul Williams Responds to Copyleft Challenge<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n How is Creative Commons, the organization behind those easy-to-comprehend, web-friendly copyright licenses that are designed for use by non-lawyer humans (which arguably means people who can’t afford lawyers are now more empowered to put their work out there on exactly the terms that they want) “anti-copyright”? Don’t these licenses actually help<\/i> people follow copyright by spelling out for them–not in complex legalese, but in clear pictograms<\/b> attached to a special content search tool<\/a>, for goodness sake–exactly what kinds of usages a creator says are permitted and which are not? In a growing low-budget\/high-distro\/pro-am world, this kind of development seems essential to maintaining order. When I see “All Rights Reserved” on a site that distributes content under a full range of copyright options, it doesn’t dilute it. If anything, it actually carries a great deal more weight to me because I know that the declared copyright wasn’t just the default position–it was proactively chosen to say, “Hey, I mean it, do not assume you can just put this on your blog\/in your video. I said All Rights Reserved<\/i><\/b>. No touchy!”<\/p>\n And while we’re on this, how is challenging someone to a debate the same as “silencing” that person? Wouldn’t that only work if they then refused to participate? Oh, wait…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I didn’t think it was possible, but I am now even more confused: Paul Williams Responds to Copyleft Challenge How is Creative Commons, the organization behind those easy-to-comprehend, web-friendly copyright licenses that are designed for use by non-lawyer humans (which arguably means people who can’t afford lawyers are now more empowered to put their work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}