The latest problem faced by the blogs like, The Great Indian Mutiny, Hindu Mommy and scores of other indian blogs, where a NASDAQ listed company, site scrapped these blogs. The company Communications Director apologised to all the bloggers stating that they were attacked by a malicious coder’s spyder and, as soon as they could, they will have the situation fixed.

Well this incident made me thing about having a Creative Commons Licence.

This is a must for all the bloggers and site owners or lets say for everyone who pust their content up on the web. This not only gives you the right of your work but protects from website plagiarism and site scrapping.

There are 6 Licenses to choose from.

Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd)

Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike (by-nc-sa)

Attribution Non-commercial (by-nc)

Attribution No Derivatives (by-nd)

Attribution Share Alike (by-sa)

Attribution (by)

I choose the lisence Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike (by-nc-sa), where the license states that

You are free:

• to Share — to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
• to Remix — to make derivative works

Under the following conditions:

• Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor.
• Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
• Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one.

For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work.

Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder.

This is the Legal Code (the full license).