Uncopyright – Steal my content peeps!

I don’t talk about Sue She over here at Taprobane Uncut, Standards people! Standards!

Sure mine is a controversial blog by default, and I can guarantee you its by choice. But little did I know someone would be inspired by my humble little blog and ask me for permission to re publish. Wow.. Aren’t we humble here?

I actually thought of franchising (I think licensing is the correct word) my blog content and earn a few billions of dollars, but decided to give it all free...

So here it is..

I’m granting full permission to use any of my content on Taprobane Uncut, in any way you like.

I release my copyright on this content.

This post is an official notification that my writing here at Taprobane Uncut is now in the public domain. I hereby waive all claim of copyright in this work; it may be used or altered in any manner without attribution or notice to me. Attribution, of course, is appreciated, though not mandatory.

From now on, there is no need to ask me for permission. Use it however you want! Email it, share it, reprint it with or without credit. Change it around, put in a bunch of swear words and attribute them to me. It’s OK peeps, all yours!

Taprobane dude, you are f**king crazy, why are you doing this?

Well…I’m not a big fan of copyright laws anyway. I’ve seen many blogs with legal notices to readers, especially on the Srilankan blogosphere, and that’s just bloody hilarious to say the least. Why are people so possessive of their obscure content and amateur photos anyway? I am not impressed.

So I’m trying this experiment to see whether releasing copyright really hurts the creator of the content.

The lack of copyright, and blatant copying by other artists and even businesses, never hurt Leonardo da Vinci when it comes to images such as the Mona Lisa, or the Last Supper.

It never hurt Shakespeare. I doubt that it’s ever really hurt any artist (although I might just be ignorant here).

Imagine Jesus Christ wanted to have copyrights to the holy Bible…Its just insane, no? The idea of Christianity would never have caught on if Jesus wanted to keep it to himself. The same can be said of Buddha and others who wanted their beautiful ideas spread.

My point is great people aren’t worried about copyrights, its for the minions who worry about their little pennies.

And while I’m no Da Vinci or Shakespeare or Jesus, I can’t help but wonder whether copyright hurts me or helps me as a blogger. If someone feels like sharing my content on their blog, I don’t see how that hurts me. My work is being spread to many more people than I could do myself. That’s a plus, as I see it.

No No Taprobane Uncut, you should copyright and protect content…

Err… OK.. But this kind of thinking stems from a mind that wants to control creative freedom, and it’s not a good thing. What if someone takes my work and turns it into something brilliant? Or more likely, what if they take the work and extend the concepts and make it even more useful, to even more people?

Release control, and see what happens. People are wonderful, creative creatures. Let’s see what they can do. For instance Indi Samarajiva can steal my content, publish it on a leading yellow tabloid as part of his self-promotion exercise.

Am I making other bloggers look bad?

Perhaps, if you want to see things in a negative light. But I’m not doing this as a challenge to other bloggers, or as a comment on their policies. I’m doing it simply to stay in line with my values. And who knows? Maybe others will be inspired by this in some way. Or maybe they won’t. Either way, please don’t judge others based on what I do.

See I did it… and will see who likes to follow suit?