2009-07-27

copy/paste in the cc-way

This is a test i did with the latest blog from the CC headquarters, and it works well (see last part):

"If you�re one of the couple dozen people who copied text off our blog yesterday, you may have noticed some more text accompany your clipboard when you pasted it � a link to our site and the license (Attribution) we�ve offered our content under. This is because we�ve installed Tynt�s Tracer tool on our blog which uses a bit of javascript wizardry to concatenate attribution and, as of now, particular CC license information to content copied from our site.

If you�re curious about how this works, try selecting some text from anywhere on our blog and pasting it somewhere. Rich text editors (such as most WYSIWYG HTML editors, or Gmail) will preserve the hyperlink but the text will also show up in standard plain text editors as well.

As a creator and contributor to the commons, you have the right to attribution (all six of our licenses require it), so why not make it easy for your audience to automatically provide it?

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And don�t worry, the extra markup is just text. Nothing about Tynt�s tool forces reusers to do anything, its merely useful additional information providing proper attribution and license notification."


Read more: https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/16060#ixzz0MPOlgWc1
Under Creative Commons License: Attribution