http://cecily.info/2007/12/12/giving-it-all-away/ they see me shushin', they hatin' Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://cecily.info/2007/12/12/giving-it-all-away/comment-page-1/#comment-76 Michelle Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:13:01 +0000 http://cecily.info/?p=1224#comment-76 I write tutorials for Movable Type and I give them away for free to Learning Movable Type. When that was being being scraped and posted on a website running ads I was pissed and had a take down notice sent. Yes, I was giving that content away for free but in the context that I wanted, in the way that I wanted. I was giving content away to help people yes but also to promote my knowledge and what I can do. I was not giving content away so someone else could take it and make money off of it. Some people like to think/claim that having your work stolen is just great promotion. You know what? It's so totally not. I've had photographs taken, I've had writing taken and for all the supposed promotion value I've never seen any money or even leads come back from. These same people often seem to claim that you should be "honored" that someone likes your work enough to steal it. All I can say to that is "what?" Regarding the specific case of Lane and her work what struck me most is that it's not just about money. She specifically said that her work had been taken and re-used in ways she was not comfortable with. I don't know specifically what ways she's talking about it but it doesn't matter. If she's posted something with all rights reserved she shouldn't have to be scared that her work is going to be taken and used in a manner she doesn't feel comfortable with and then the stealer/remixer/whatever code word we're using will then get applauded while she's called sexist names. Thomas Hawk and Scoble are actually throwing out the red herring arguments they're so fond of condemning. If you're comfortable with your work being taken and used for fun and for profit more power to you. Knock yourself out in fact. But that doesn't mean when someone has expressly asked you not to take her work (which she shouldn't have to do) that you get to not only take the work , punch the creator in the face and tell her to suck it up because that's the internet. Know what? I'm part of the internet and I don't intentionally take others people work. I'm part of the internet and I don't take work that someone else has created, mix up with my own stuff and say "hey look at this new thing I created that I'm going to make money off of or advance my career with that." Just because you do it doesn't mean that's "what the internet is about" or whatever the mean people who cheer for stealing other people's work are saying. I write tutorials for Movable Type and I give them away for free to Learning Movable Type. When that was being being scraped and posted on a website running ads I was pissed and had a take down notice sent. Yes, I was giving that content away for free but in the context that I wanted, in the way that I wanted. I was giving content away to help people yes but also to promote my knowledge and what I can do. I was not giving content away so someone else could take it and make money off of it.
Some people like to think/claim that having your work stolen is just great promotion. You know what? It’s so totally not. I’ve had photographs taken, I’ve had writing taken and for all the supposed promotion value I’ve never seen any money or even leads come back from. These same people often seem to claim that you should be “honored” that someone likes your work enough to steal it. All I can say to that is “what?”
Regarding the specific case of Lane and her work what struck me most is that it’s not just about money. She specifically said that her work had been taken and re-used in ways she was not comfortable with. I don’t know specifically what ways she’s talking about it but it doesn’t matter. If she’s posted something with all rights reserved she shouldn’t have to be scared that her work is going to be taken and used in a manner she doesn’t feel comfortable with and then the stealer/remixer/whatever code word we’re using will then get applauded while she’s called sexist names. Thomas Hawk and Scoble are actually throwing out the red herring arguments they’re so fond of condemning. If you’re comfortable with your work being taken and used for fun and for profit more power to you. Knock yourself out in fact. But that doesn’t mean when someone has expressly asked you not to take her work (which she shouldn’t have to do) that you get to not only take the work , punch the creator in the face and tell her to suck it up because that’s the internet.
Know what? I’m part of the internet and I don’t intentionally take others people work. I’m part of the internet and I don’t take work that someone else has created, mix up with my own stuff and say “hey look at this new thing I created that I’m going to make money off of or advance my career with that.” Just because you do it doesn’t mean that’s “what the internet is about” or whatever the mean people who cheer for stealing other people’s work are saying.

]]> http://cecily.info/2007/12/12/giving-it-all-away/comment-page-1/#comment-755 Michelle Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:13:00 +0000 http://cecily.info/?p=1224#comment-755 I write tutorials for Movable Type and I give them away for free to Learning Movable Type. When that was being being scraped and posted on a website running ads I was pissed and had a take down notice sent. Yes, I was giving that content away for free but in the context that I wanted, in the way that I wanted. I was giving content away to help people yes but also to promote my knowledge and what I can do. I was not giving content away so someone else could take it and make money off of it. Some people like to think/claim that having your work stolen is just great promotion. You know what? It's so totally not. I've had photographs taken, I've had writing taken and for all the supposed promotion value I've never seen any money or even leads come back from. These same people often seem to claim that you should be "honored" that someone likes your work enough to steal it. All I can say to that is "what?" Regarding the specific case of Lane and her work what struck me most is that it's not just about money. She specifically said that her work had been taken and re-used in ways she was not comfortable with. I don't know specifically what ways she's talking about it but it doesn't matter. If she's posted something with all rights reserved she shouldn't have to be scared that her work is going to be taken and used in a manner she doesn't feel comfortable with and then the stealer/remixer/whatever code word we're using will then get applauded while she's called sexist names. Thomas Hawk and Scoble are actually throwing out the red herring arguments they're so fond of condemning. If you're comfortable with your work being taken and used for fun and for profit more power to you. Knock yourself out in fact. But that doesn't mean when someone has expressly asked you not to take her work (which she shouldn't have to do) that you get to not only take the work , punch the creator in the face and tell her to suck it up because that's the internet. Know what? I'm part of the internet and I don't intentionally take others people work. I'm part of the internet and I don't take work that someone else has created, mix up with my own stuff and say "hey look at this new thing I created that I'm going to make money off of or advance my career with that." Just because you do it doesn't mean that's "what the internet is about" or whatever the mean people who cheer for stealing other people's work are saying. I write tutorials for Movable Type and I give them away for free to Learning Movable Type. When that was being being scraped and posted on a website running ads I was pissed and had a take down notice sent. Yes, I was giving that content away for free but in the context that I wanted, in the way that I wanted. I was giving content away to help people yes but also to promote my knowledge and what I can do. I was not giving content away so someone else could take it and make money off of it.
Some people like to think/claim that having your work stolen is just great promotion. You know what? It’s so totally not. I’ve had photographs taken, I’ve had writing taken and for all the supposed promotion value I’ve never seen any money or even leads come back from. These same people often seem to claim that you should be “honored” that someone likes your work enough to steal it. All I can say to that is “what?”
Regarding the specific case of Lane and her work what struck me most is that it’s not just about money. She specifically said that her work had been taken and re-used in ways she was not comfortable with. I don’t know specifically what ways she’s talking about it but it doesn’t matter. If she’s posted something with all rights reserved she shouldn’t have to be scared that her work is going to be taken and used in a manner she doesn’t feel comfortable with and then the stealer/remixer/whatever code word we’re using will then get applauded while she’s called sexist names. Thomas Hawk and Scoble are actually throwing out the red herring arguments they’re so fond of condemning. If you’re comfortable with your work being taken and used for fun and for profit more power to you. Knock yourself out in fact. But that doesn’t mean when someone has expressly asked you not to take her work (which she shouldn’t have to do) that you get to not only take the work , punch the creator in the face and tell her to suck it up because that’s the internet.
Know what? I’m part of the internet and I don’t intentionally take others people work. I’m part of the internet and I don’t take work that someone else has created, mix up with my own stuff and say “hey look at this new thing I created that I’m going to make money off of or advance my career with that.” Just because you do it doesn’t mean that’s “what the internet is about” or whatever the mean people who cheer for stealing other people’s work are saying.

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