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Well, here is something that I promised myself I would write about in my other post about Copyrights. A copyright restricts the distribution of any work and also distribution of any modifications to such works.

There are other types of licenses, where one can release their works under public domain or other creative common licenses. These are done with the motive of increasing creativity, and general propagation of works among the mass.

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A long time back I did write on writer’s block. I had even ventured out on writing a novella. But to be honest, that writer’s block remained to date. I could make all sorts of excuses to not to write the novel that I had so much passion to write.

But I think, I have stumbled upon something that I hope can remove this writer’s block - NaNoWriMo. It is a event that happens every year in the month of November. It stands for National Novel Writing Month.

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On a suggestion from Thilak on my other thread, after which I had a bit of chat with him over GTalk, and I could get the Comment Subscription Plugin for WordPress.. I got it from the Plugin’s Homepage, and it was a breeze installing it.

So, when you comment henceforth, you can subscribe to it, and get notifications whenever someone else replies.

This post is a direct result of some discussions I had with Thilak over at TechBuzz. There was an incident of plagiarism by a person, and Thilak could, after some effort get a public apology. And later, we had some discussion over at another thread of his, where a harmless looking picture of Bart Simpson was used.

Copyright protection applies from the time the work was created in a fixed form. The work may be literary, music, video, artwork and other intellectual works. The copyright applies even if the © symbol is displayed or not along with the work. The copyright give the owner of the work exclusive rights over it. No one can use the work, without express permission from the owner.

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Yes, I moved my blog again. If I remember right, this would be the second move of my blog. I started blogging intially at Google’s Blogspot, where I had a blog by the name “Pondering’s of Mahesh Bhat”. I know - crappy title. I then chose BlogCharm to be by blog host for the reason that I wanted proper tagging of all my posts. The WordPress engine that was provided then by Blogspot did not allow for categories, and it resulted in a spawn of numerous blogs that I found cumbersome to handle. BlogCharm’s blog engine did provide for categories, so that all posts would be neatly organized. So, I moved into BlogCharm with a new name, Splat. It was a pretty steady stint there, and I was able to publish many titbits (splats) of information there.

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