Shared Creation

Mostly Shared Creation encourages you to create and to publish, to put your work, writing, films and images out where people can see them. In the main this is appropriate behaviour, after all it is only by making your work available that other people can see it.

However I was recently sent via Twitter a post that showed off one of the things that can happen when you post freely. It was a BBC article that showed how a Christmas card image for an American family ended up being used to advertise a supermarket in Prague.

You can read the article here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8094420.stm

I would take this as a timely reminder that anything you post in a public place (such as a blog) , unless protected can be used by anyone, anywhere for any purpose. In effect you are broadcasting those words and images to the world, and not everyone in the world will take from them what you intended. So just bear that in mind with family pictures and other media.

We are all now broadcasters.

Its going to be an interesting world