Comments on: How the Social Web Came To Be http://www.edugeekjournal.com/2007/09/27/how-the-social-web-came-to-be/ Proud Sponsor of Your Future Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:41:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Matt Crosslin http://www.edugeekjournal.com/2007/09/27/how-the-social-web-came-to-be/comment-page-1/#comment-177 Matt Crosslin Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:04:43 +0000 http://www.edugeekjournal.com/?p=117#comment-177 Of course, so far, even the sites with the worst terms of service haven't abused them yet (for the most part). If most sites keep operating the way they do, it could be fine. But I doubt it will stay that way.<br /><br />I'm trying to follow that case where the family is suing a cellphone company for using their daughter's image off of Flickr for some ads. I hope that the courts find in favor of the family. The essence of copyright law is to protect the person who created content from having it stolen and used for profit by someone that didn't really do any of the work. I think sites need to be sent the message that just because they store content, or even give creation tools for content - that doesn't give them any rights to that content. Especially of the site is free for the end user.<br /> Of course, so far, even the sites with the worst terms of service haven’t abused them yet (for the most part). If most sites keep operating the way they do, it could be fine. But I doubt it will stay that way.

I’m trying to follow that case where the family is suing a cellphone company for using their daughter’s image off of Flickr for some ads. I hope that the courts find in favor of the family. The essence of copyright law is to protect the person who created content from having it stolen and used for profit by someone that didn’t really do any of the work. I think sites need to be sent the message that just because they store content, or even give creation tools for content – that doesn’t give them any rights to that content. Especially of the site is free for the end user.

]]> By: Katrina Adams http://www.edugeekjournal.com/2007/09/27/how-the-social-web-came-to-be/comment-page-1/#comment-176 Katrina Adams Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:55:13 +0000 http://www.edugeekjournal.com/?p=117#comment-176 Ownership is something that a lot of people (myself included) don't think about when signing up and uploading to these various sites. Ownership is something that a lot of people (myself included) don’t think about when signing up and uploading to these various sites.

]]> By: Matt Crosslin http://www.edugeekjournal.com/2007/09/27/how-the-social-web-came-to-be/comment-page-1/#comment-173 Matt Crosslin Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:20:52 +0000 http://www.edugeekjournal.com/?p=117#comment-173 Wow - that's really long, but really fascinating. I think I need to go remove some stuff off of some sites before I lose my rights to them :)<br /><br />And... Tom is just a fancy poster boy for MySpace? I'm crushed....<br /> Wow – that’s really long, but really fascinating. I think I need to go remove some stuff off of some sites before I lose my rights to them :)

And… Tom is just a fancy poster boy for MySpace? I’m crushed….

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