Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Creatively Willing Blind Eye Indecency

For some reason, who knows why, my meandering mind brought me to thinking about Creative Commons licenses. We've never actually taken one out for our funny cartoons, yet in an informal sense we pretty much abide by one. Essentially all our cartoons are offered under the same terms as a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License - which is to say we encourage people to steal our cartoons for their site as long as they show them as provided and give a link back to us. Outside of that, of course, we also offer the feeds for anyone who wants to run the cartoons on a regular basis. My only qualm about the license is I'm not sure how I'd feel about people performing our cartoons.

On a somewhat related side note, I think I've mentioned before about our willingness to - for the time being at least - to turn a blind eye to hotlinking. Well, yes, ok, it's fine. Folks hotlinking our cartoons is flattering and it's not caused us any real problems but the people who are hotlinking the blog cartoon shown here really are taking the piss. It's not ours. We had the decency to take it and upload it to our servers, so why can't you? You're running a blog, so you must be some way computer literate. Once I work out how to start fucking with you, I will and it won't be nice.