Meditative Prose
Thursday, 21 February 2008
Photo by Minette
The following paragraphs relate to copyright and using content you find here. In short: you don’t have to ask me for permission. If this doesn’t apply to you, or you just aren’t interested, feel free to stop reading now and enjoy the pretty picture.
Tonight I swapped out a couple of the photos accompanying earlier posts because they were copyrighted, and legally I should have asked the owners for permission to use them. I didn’t receive any complaints, but I feel like it’s better to avoid that problem altogether, so I replaced the two offending photos with similar ones that were freely available on Flickr under a Creative Commons license. This allows me to use them on this site as long as I give credit to the photographer — easy enough.
From now on, for reasons of legality and laziness, and in order to support folks who are nice enough to make their photos available for everyone to use, I will only post non-copyrighted photos to this website. My own photos have always been available under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license, and now the rest of the content on this website is as well. This means that you can use anything you find here for any non-commercial purpose, including altering it, as long as you credit me and share your derivative work under a similar license. The full terms of the license are available here. (Phew!)
