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That kind of goes against what scratch is about. Sure it would stop people from stealing art, but some people would have it turned on all the time (and most of the point of scratch is to remix and learn from each other's code).

If you see stolen art, flag the project and contact the scratch team if they keep doing it.

Last edited by hmnwilson (2008-12-20 16:28:18)

hmnwilson wrote:

That kind of goes against what scratch is about. Sure it would stop people from stealing art, but some people would have it turned on all the time (and most of the point of scratch is to remix and learn from each other's code).

If you see stolen art, flag the project and contact the scratch team if they keep doing it.

Ok, but what about a "No Remixing" option, then you can learn from scripts, but you can't steal.

hmnwilson wrote:

ChefCookie wrote:

hmnwilson wrote:

That kind of goes against what scratch is about. Sure it would stop people from stealing art, but some people would have it turned on all the time (and most of the point of scratch is to remix and learn from each other's code).

If you see stolen art, flag the project and contact the scratch team if they keep doing it.

Ok, but what about a "No Remixing" option, then you can learn from scripts, but you can't steal.

It's better, but there's still ways around it.
Then again, if you were lazy enough to steal art instead of make your own, you probably wouldn't want to go through the trouble of getting around it anyway. 

Clicking a button twice to export something would hardly be considered "trouble."

I think we’ve just got to get past the idea that people are somehow stealing other people’s work when it us used without asking permission.  Every time you share a project you are giving everyone permission to re-use your work as long as they give you credit.  It’s in the terms and conditions.  Also under every Scratch project is a link called Some Rights Reserved.  It’s what you agree to when you post a project.  It basically says the same thing (that others are allowed to use your work, or "cake", as long as they give you credit.)

In the Scratch culture, remixing is allowed and encouraged. I understand that when someone has worked hard and is proud of their efforts, they want to have some say about how it might be re-used. In the commercial world this is in fact how things work. Someone makes something, copyrights it, and controls it for a long time. But Scratch turns things upside-down where remixing is okay and encouraged (as long as the original author is given credit.)

I would not blame anyone for not reading the fine print. I usually don’t read fine print. You may not have wanted to work so hard on something if you had known that you would not have control over how it was used. This is perhaps one of the drivers that causes people to leave Scratch and invest their talents in other areas.

I don’t know why the Scratch team decided to put all Scratch projects and support materials under the Creative Commons license. However, it seems to me that this is a good fit for the educational goals of Scratch. If someone has used your work in a Scratch project without giving you credit then I suggest you first add a nice comment on their project asking them to please give you credit for your work. It may have been an honest mistake and something that is easily dealt with.

I thik it would be an idea not because what you said but for copyright reasons. If you have loads of songs in your project is partly illegal to download it

Yuppers...........That's not what Scratch is about! against what it all was made for!

andresmh wrote:

When you  share your work on the Scratch website your work automatically gets shared for other people to download, copy it and remix it. The only thing they are required to do is:

a) Share the derivative work in the same way. This means that if they create a project based on someone else's work they cannot prevent others from "downloading, copying  and remixing".

b) Give attribution. This is about giving credit, which is typically done automatically  by the statement under remixes that says "Based on ____ ".

One of our core beliefs is that creativity and learning flourish when people are able to learn from and build on each other's work.

Our culture thrives by building on other people's ideas. Just think about how a lot of your projects are beautifully accompanied by some music that someone else made and a lot of the art Scratchers create is itself inspired by the work of many others artists (Anime, Manga, Disney, etc) Imagine if those artists did not let you copy their music or their drawing style? Well, in fact a lot of them don't and there has been a lot of arguments in congress about that. If you want to see one of my favorite ones by a  famous Law professor check this video: http://www.scratch.mit.edu/ext/youtube/?v=7Q25-S7jzgs

Just like some of you base your work on professional Japanese art, people learn from your work  when they  download it, they learn from your blocks  and remix it to experiment with it and create their own projects. Additionally, you typically get automatically  credited by the statement under each remix that says  "Based on ___ project".  Of course, if someone is maliciously downloading your work to claim it as theirs, such behavior is unacceptable and you report it to us.

Finally,  even if people were not able to download your projects, people can simply hit the "Print Screen" button to take a screenshot of those images they want to copy.  So preventing to download projects  would only put an unnecessary burden on legitimate downloads.

We hope you could be proud of the fact people want to copy as a form of recognition on the quality of your work.  We wish you continue sharing your work in our community and inspiring other people with your creations.

VERY interesting and informative (and funny) video.

Two year necropost!

BTW, if you import the project, it won't say "based on"

kayybee wrote:

Two year necropost!

Two year necropost indeed. 

Not to mention this is one suggestion mentioned in the sticky Suggestions that have been resolved already. Since this thread is old and the suggestions is not going to happen, I'll close this thread.