[sldev] Re: Permissions - A content creator's view (michi@luskwood.org)

[Callum Lerwick]

On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 22:24 +0200, Nicholaz Beresford wrote:
> A lot of Creative Commons work (and I'm purposefully avoiding the the term
> "art") is driven by attribution.  Being it the idea to build a reputation
> or simply personal satisfaction.  In fact I once read an article that a
> lot of contributions in the sci-fi scene is driven what the author called
> ego-points.
> 
> Such a "creators notice" field or even something more advanced could serve
> to fuel people's drive to create free content, if there is an intangible
> benefit for it.  It would automatically serve as a more prominent form
> of attribution (more prominent than more, more inspect) and would probably
> be used in more creative forms (Killroy was here!), which in return may
> make it more interesting to actually look at these.

Its called "signing your work" and people have been doing it for
hundreds (thousands?) of years.

Call it watermarking if you want, but whatever you call it, it's really
outside the domain of protocol design.
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