Track Your Creative Commons Works in the Wild With FairShare
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.
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.
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The date on the post is wrong! It's only March, not April (I sincerely hope!)
Thanks Eve, I'll fix that now :) good catch and enjoy a free 30 days!
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
so my content is all over the place. Now what?
tahanks very much
That's what I've been always looking for. Looks like it works, thanks!
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.
thanks very nicee
Interesting.. I'm giving it a try. Thanks for the links.
Phil - thanks for the WHOIS suggestion. It's something that we should do as it is clearly the next question you want answered.
Rich
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
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.
Its a great news to all open source programmers :)
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.
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Thank you very much for this useful article and the comments