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Suggestion Box: Attribution/ShareAlike/ActuallyTellMeAboutIt

Cre­ative Com­mons cov­ers almost all use cases apart from one revealed on Twit­ter this morn­ing: you’ve granted oth­ers the right to use and remix your work, but how do you know if someone’s done it? Sure, it’s cer­tainly cour­te­ous to do so, but they’re not nec­es­sar­ily under any oblig­a­tion to let you know about it.

This post is © Cather­ine Win­ters, licensed under CC-Attribution-ShareAlike. Also, let me know.

With that in mind, I pro­pose the Cre­ative Com­mons Actu­al­lyTellMe­AboutIt license. I know I’d like to hear when some­one uses my stuff! Plus, hey, the icon’s obvi­ous, right?

On the other hand, CreativeCommons.org defines “Attri­bu­tion” as: “You let oth­ers copy, dis­trib­ute, dis­play, and per­form your copy­righted work — and deriv­a­tive works based upon it — but only if they give credit the way you request.”

So I sup­pose it is already implied that you would even­tu­ally hear of this. Still, it would be nice to cod­ify it some­how with­out hav­ing to post any specifics of the means of attribution.