My New Site with CC Content

[Mark Ashworth]

Hi All,

I've been a lurker on this group for a long time and have following
the CC movement from the sidelines, but now it is time for me to start
sharing, contributing and taking a more active role.

My startup company is all about educating people about medical tourism
and providing a platform where people can share their medical
experiences. We've been paying a medical student to write short
articles on popular medical procedures that people travel from
overseas to Singapore (and other countries) to have done. Hence we
would love to share this content under a CC license (and try to get
more of our site with a CC license too).

A sample article is here (although there's still a few bugs with the
'edit procedure' feature which we're working on):
http://www.medisherpa.com/procedures/tummy-tuck.html

I hope I'm doing it right.

In the future I am hoping to work out some CC license option for
patients who submit their before/after pictures to the site. This
would be my main aim for CC content on my site. So I will definitely
need the assistance of this group with that in the near future.


Cheers
Mark

[Ivan Chew]

Hello Mark,

Thanks for your support of CC. Every article counts! I first skimmed through the page and didn't notice the CC license part. Actually I scrolled all the way to the end and then read the All Rights Reserved T&C lol. But I re-visited the page and realised it was just before the videos. 

I thought you're displaying and using the CC license correctly. As you might know, there's no specific way on how to display the license.  

My personal experience though, is to be even more explicit on I wish for the page should be credited. I might put the text "please credit this article as follows: <my name; website>". My sense is that most people use my CC licensed works and don't state the attribution, not because they don't want to but they may not have clicked through to find out more. Or they are just unsure what is "attribution". I thought CC is to provide clarity to others on how they can use my work, and makes sense that I help provide that clarity. That way, there really is no doubt :)

If you use the CC license chooser, you can specify even more details as part of the embed code. I often do that and then remove information that I think makes the statement too clunky.

Cheers!

Ivan

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[Mark Ashworth]

Hmm. Then maybe I should but the CC license at the top of the article
too? That would make it more obvious.

I guess we need to rewrite our T&C too to state that some parts of the
site are CC?

I'll definitely be waiting for the new CC license chooser to be
released. That will be useful for the text etc.

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