Comments for Track Your Creative Commons Works in the Wild With FairShare

Track Your Creative Commons Works in the Wild With FairShare

2009-03-04T08:21:00Z

Attributor Corp. announced a collaboration with Creative Commons today to offer a free service to anyone wishing to track their content on-line. The service is called FairShare. Provide FairShare with an RSS feed of your content and the service will compare it to billions of indexed pages around the web.

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Once FairShare has the content, it creates a custom RSS feed that delivers a running list of site links where the licensed content may be found. Each result contains a link to a FairShare page that has more information and a stored capture of the Web page in question. The collaboration with Creative Commons comes in when FairShare attempts to determine whether sites reusing your content are respecting the terms you've set in your Creative Commons license. For example, ads on the page violate conditions for one type of CC license, non-commercial reuse only.

The FairShare system was developed to help content creators discover all the ways their works were being used on the Internet. By automatically monitoring for re-use, authors get a better idea of who is taking inspiration from their works. This works well, but we would like to be able to pull up more detail on each site, for example WHOIS information.

FairShare is launching in beta today and is accepting new RSS feeds from anyone. If you have your own feed, go ahead and give it a try. You might be surprised (even pleasantly) by where your words appear and in what context.

Comment from Moryel on 2010-01-22

2010-01-23T03:23:32Z

Oliver, in fact Attributor Corp's core business is to track the copyrighted cotent for businesses and help them leverage business opportunities with this information

Comment from Matrak on 2009-12-08

2009-12-09T01:43:30Z

Thanks for share

Comment from wtf on 2009-08-16

2009-08-16T12:18:13Z

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Comment from sohbet on 2009-06-11

2009-06-11T22:18:37Z

tanx see you later

Comment from James on 2009-03-04

2009-03-05T00:26:27Z

I wonder how well it works when the CCd data is in the form of discreet facts. For example, any data you download from Freebase and republish.

Comment from Ankit on 2009-03-04

2009-03-05T00:20:31Z

Its a great news to all open source programmers :)

Comment from Phil Glockner on 2009-03-04

2009-03-05T00:14:02Z

Oliver, in fact Attributor Corp's core business is to track the copyrighted cotent for businesses and help them leverage business opportunities with this information.

What FairShare focuses on, however, is raising awareness of content sharing using the Creative Commons licenses. In that regard, they can offer their search service for free, thus raising the profile of their technology without, let's say, the threatening dark legal cloud on the horizon. You have to pay for that.

Comment from Oliver on 2009-03-04

2009-03-04T23:20:49Z

This seems like a really big deal to me. I think one of the barriers to wider spread adoption of creative commons is creators' weariness of abuse (i.e., i want everyone to have access to my stuff, but i don't want them making money off my back). Spreading awareness of your service alone will alone make commercial scrapers think twice, maybe. Also, seems like this could be built out and put to many many beneficial uses for/by content creators. Thanks.
Oliver Wright

Comment from Rich Pearson on 2009-03-04

2009-03-04T15:48:17Z

Phil - thanks for the WHOIS suggestion. It's something that we should do as it is clearly the next question you want answered.

Rich

Comment from ITrush on 2009-03-04

2009-03-04T13:40:37Z

Interesting.. I'm giving it a try. Thanks for the links.

Comment from sohbet on 2009-03-04

2009-03-04T11:20:06Z

thanks very nicee

Comment from Engago Team on 2009-03-04

2009-03-04T11:10:07Z

Always happy to know who is interested in our content.
To our surprise more re-use than we expected.
Much more than reported by Technorati or other systems.

If knowing who uses it will ever lead to leads is unsure.

Comment from luca Filigheddu on 2009-03-04

2009-03-04T11:05:41Z

That's what I've been always looking for. Looks like it works, thanks!

Comment from sohbet on 2009-03-04

2009-03-04T10:41:44Z

tahanks very much

Comment from lemon obrien on 2009-03-04

2009-03-04T10:25:08Z

so my content is all over the place. Now what?

Comment from KW at PerfectMOney on 2009-03-04

2009-03-04T09:46:51Z

hmm,what an idea.combination of Copyscape and creative commons to fight against duplication and double publications.if I imagine how the system works.I think the technology is lies behind Google search cache and Google analytic combined,.however since I completely blind of technical issue like that ,I `ll give that try to my post and if I could find someone duplicate my piece of art ,I will warn him ,not to do that again because with Fairshare,I always know,what are you do with my article content

Comment from Marshall Kirkpatrick on 2009-03-04

2009-03-04T09:18:02Z

Thanks Eve, I'll fix that now :) good catch and enjoy a free 30 days!

Comment from Eve Dmochowska on 2009-03-04

2009-03-04T09:03:53Z

The date on the post is wrong! It's only March, not April (I sincerely hope!)