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This post seemingly comes in the right moment, after the posts on copyright and creative commons licenses. I found out about Lisensa through the blog post by Darren Rowse.

Lisensa is a online copyright transaction service provider for content generated by people online. It presently provides the service for blogs and RSS/Atom feeds. It automates the process of transaction between the copyright holder and any tentative buyers who might want to use the content that has been copyrighted. It provides the service free of charge, but takes a cut of 10% from all the revenue generated through the transactions.

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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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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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