You wanna see something ironic? Head on over to Bitacle’s article here: clicky. Look familiar? Yeah, I published it yesterday. It seems Bitacle has been scraping my RSS feed for quite some time now. I suppose that was all good and legal when my posts were licensed Creative Commons, and there’s nothing I can do about those posts now. But this particular post was published under a full Copyright. The irony is that the post itself says how it was published. Yeah, they’re gonna get an earful as soon as I’m done posting this.
After reading Lorelle’s post I’ve found that there are actually a lot of folks who are mad at Bitacle. But this is exactly why I decided to copyright my content. If you’re using a CC license that does not include the “non-commercial” stipulation then you have no leg to stand on in a situation like this. At least, that’s how I understand it. I may be wrong and if I am I’ll admit it but from the way I understand CC, what Bitacle is doing is perfectly legal. It’s unethical, but not illegal. If you can convince me otherwise then more power to ya. I’d actually like to be wrong. That way there are more people who can step up to slit Bitacle’s throat.
Pardon me as I go to write an email threatening legal action.
