Creative Commons: Who cares?

I was looking around the Internet the other day when I saw this:

Being the only person not knowing about Creative Common and “Shared licenses”, I went around their websites (creativecommons.org) and then it hits me:

Who cares?

Seriously, who fucking cares? Putting that logo on your website ain’t going to change anything. If someone wants to steal something from you, he’ll do it anyway. The website claims you have grounds for legal action but seriously, who is ever going to do that? I’d be surprised to learn that even one person over got sued over that Creative Common Crap (or CCC, expression protected by a Creative Copyright). Unless you’re very big — and nothing protecting you with bullshit creative — you’re never going to ever sue someone over your material being stolen simply because you can’t. It’s IMPOSSIBLE to sue someone over the Internet because he is stealing your content. Even if you could find his name and address, who is going to be stupid enough to pay thousands and thousands of legal fees to perhaps win a long, exhausting, stressful lawsuit and perhaps be able to get some money back — assuming the guy is able and willing to pay, and assuming he does not appeal, which could add 2-3 years to the process. No one ever will.

I know US is a heaven for lawsuit, but come on. I can understand suing someone because you tripped on their property because you’re too dumb to walk since you have tangible proofs, injuries. I can understang suing McDonald’s or a big corporation because they don’t give a crap about the 10,000$ you could earn in the process — it cost them more than that to hire a lawyer to just READ your file. But who would sue over a stupid picture, image or text used or resold on another website without his or her permission? That doesn’t include the fact the person might be in a totally different country, making you completely unable to do anything anyway. You might tell me: Frank, now I have a proof I am the owner of this work! So what? I have multiple proofs of tons of people who wronged me in my life . Doesn’t mean I can do shit with it.

Creative Commons is a stupid idea. I’m not going to waste my time putting a stupid image that tells people I am an oversized prick who thinks a wall of text will stop people from stealing my work. These things don’t work and never will. Oh, they could call the host of the stolen content! Oh noes! Like any host gave a shit about some random guy - with nothing more serious that some dumb logo he put on his website - bitching about some idiot work he did. It’s a commonly known fact that hosts don’t give a shit about stolen property, even with proofs. Your only hope of ever proving the work is stolen — assuming the host is america and subject to american laws - would be to submit a DCMA, which… Yeah, take a lot of time and money. Even then, you might not stop the guy from distributing your shit. Heck, I can name you a dozen of torrent hosts that purposedly host websites distributing movies and music — i.e. not some crappy work from Flickr no one gives a shit about - without ever caring about the DCMA.

Then, as it was not enough, Creative Commons has the insult to add “sections” to their copyright, allowing the author to decide exactly how he wants his work distributed. Yeah, right.

Who cares, seriously? Ohhh I might not commercially resell your work, or else what? I’ve violated your pathetic copyright? Here’s fact: MILLIONS of people - americans, canadians, europeans — are ABUSED and have their rights VIOLATED and are unable to do anything against it. I can name you at least a dozen of times I could have sued people or companiges, provided that I had 10,000$ to open a suit and 5-6 times this amount to afford a good lawyer for one week — hoping the case is closed early. You think I’m going to spend this much money for some shit text I’ve written? Never.

Ohh I may not modify this work! Really! I guess some mysterious, divine force will prevent me from doing it, huh? You may not resell this piece? Yeah, like anyone would accept to buy something that anyone can see for free (I could be surprised, I know). “But Frank, most people are honest and would never do that?” Yeah, of course, and it’s common sense. You don’t need some dumb logo — making publicity for them by the way - to prove it. It should be obvious that when someone creates something, you should ask his or her permission to use the work. There’s no need for a common for that.

I’m totally against taking credit for other people’s work. Completely. This text is not about the fact taking credits for the work of another person is good, it’s about how useless and stupid Creative Commons are. Who takes this shit seriously, really? I’m not going to add that thing to my website. Space wasted on my page. If you want to use my text for something, do it, at one condition: give credits. Provide a link of where you took the text. Tell people where you got your ideas and sources. Tell them I’m the original author and creator. That is all I ask and it should be common sense as well for all types of creation.  No need for a common for that. You want to copy my text on your blog and monetize from adsense? Do it, with a link. Not that there’s anything I could do if you don’t, I’m not going to lie and hide myself behind a creative common hoping you’re too dumb to realize it’s worthless.

Use my work as much as you want, quote it, modify it, just give credits of where you found the original piece — a link to www.FullyFrank.com is enough.