Being A Blogger Logo

Being A Blogger has proudly acquired a logo. Ashish has, very graciously, created this beautiful logo for Being A Blogger.

I have licensed the logo for Being A Blogger under Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.

Thank you, Ashish! You are my favorite designer. 🙂

Creative Common-ed My Blog

Finally, I added Creative Commons license in my blog. 🙂

I had long before identified the license I wanted and gathered the required HTML code. However, it took lot of my effort (read non-techie me 😦 ) to add it on my blog. Now that I think of, it was actually very easy process. Why did I send SOS all round the world? 😦 Thanks to each one of you who patiently responded to my silly queries.

After adding creative commons license on my blog, the enormity of it hit me. I read this article and realized one could actually be easily sued big time due to these copyright related issues. Read this article about the use of a copyrighted Flickr photo in Virgin Mobile advertisement campaign in Australia. Click the discussion link in the article to read more about it.

I am sure license will keep people from stealing our content, as our work will be attributed. But do we have any control as to how our work is used? And if we have permitted our work to be used for both commercial and noncommercial purposes provided it is attributed, would we be notified when our work is used by others? This is a grey area so far in India. I am not sure, what the publicity rights in my country are.