Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 | Opinion, Questions, Rants, thoughts | No Comments

I take photographs of things, people, places , anything. Yes I am VERY holey over my photographs but I normally share my picture uploads under the creative commons license but for non commercial use only.
I just don’t think that one should be too protective over a photograph of something that can easily be either duplicated in the eyes of another photographers eyes.

When it comes to my blog posts, yes I agree. I always do my best to try to keep it as original as possible  – TRY being the emphasis word here. It is after all your thoughts that you were generous enough to share with others – but like any news, the story changes two people down the line and in the end you have half of the original story when it comes your way again some day.

I thought about this from another angle today…prior to today, I would be highly pissed off at an individual who decided to duplicate my post or refer to sentences of my posts without any source links referring to my post link or mentioning my name or URL anywhere in “their content”.  In a way I guess I know what are today’s hot topics and avoid blogging about that to save readers on monotony and overkill of a particular event/story.

What sparked the idea was yet another rant on Twitter by a blogger complaining about his/her content being “stolen”.  As any other blogger, you probably reading the same content off your RSS feeds, same sites on the net, and who knows, maybe the two of you had the same idea that suddenly popped into your heads and the one that types faster gets to own the post? or what?

Yes photographs you can always link back to you – text – errr…advice here please?

Just one of my random early morning thoughts I felt like sharing. . .

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