OmniStrata wrote:Imagine, what would YOU do if you were the one with the power to do this. What would you like to do to people who took YOUR footage? :shock:
Nothing, so long as they agreed with my terms. Specifically, I'd probably use the
Creative Commons' Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike copyright license. I've used it before for some creative material, and I'd use it again. I've also used the GNU GPL as a copyright license for some widely distributed code, and I'd use it again, too.
Copyright doesn't need an oppressive license to be effective. That's true in theory, and I believe it can be true in practice as well. Which is why I'll support organizations that believe the same.
BasharOfTheAges wrote:I think the idea here is that under copyright laws, if you don't take action every time, you lose the right to ever take action.
WRONG!
That is TRADEMARK LAW. Not COPYRIGHT.
Now, in practice, it might hurt you a bit -- or maybe that's the perception in Big Media. But there's NOTHING in law that says that.