Some good news here.
All content published on popular Gawker blogs like Gizmodo, Lifehacker, etc. is now available under a Attribution Non-Commercial Creative Commons license which means that you are free to use (or republish) articles from these blogs into your own website provided you properly attribute the source (though hyperlinks) and your pages that reuse Gawker content should be free of advertising.
You can distribute and remix content from Gawker blogs but the license however does not include the right to republish images from Gawker blogs as Gawker may sometimes not be the actual copyright holder.
A commendable move by Nick Denton of Gawker Media here.
Related: A Dummies Guide to Creative Commons
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/blogging/lifehacker-content-under-creative-commons/8027/
Tags: creative commons, feature, lifehacker, Blogging
Reader Comments
Well Amit, I am just waiting to see labnol getting CC license as well. I hope it’ll happen soon :)
Written by Vivek on 03.20.09
Perhaps it might be sufficient to get ideas from Lifehacker, rather than republish content, in order to retain advertising on your site…
Written by trademetips on 03.20.09
Frankly speaking,people have already been taking content from their blogs,as they are the most credible tech news source.And now CC licencing will make it better.However “advert free pages” mean no adsense!So officially does it mean that no blog with adsense can publish their content?Please Guide
Written by techvb on 03.20.09
@techvb: Non-commercial usually means no ads. Non-commercial licenses really do limit usefulness.
Remember:
1. search engines frown upon duplicate content (one very good reason to avoid this sort of licensing!); and
2. the license cannot eliminate your right to “Fair use” (depending where your server is).
Written by Michael Lockyear on 03.21.09
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looking forward for your response.
thank you.
Written by sanjay on 03.22.09
when will your site becomes like this ?
are there any plans ??
Written by Vasu on 03.28.09