DocAndersen
The concept of privacy follows the security topic very well. Privacy is a personal right. Security is a personal choice. But the two work together and against each other all the time. Confidentiality and ownership are often confused. Security is protecting you, protecting your family and your friends. Privacy is information that you have the right to well, not have shared. One of the things that I found interesting was the conversation I had the other day. For example, I have published a few articles on Hubpages. In every single case, the option is there to Copyright that article. By default, not all sites have that. If you don’t explicitly state in your post or blog that it is Copyright you, the site you are sharing to, owns that first Copyright.
That is why the very first plagiarism check most sites do, is has it been published before. Even if you are the one that posted it, the right of first Copyright (unless you kept it) goes to the original publishing site. That means as long as that site is in existence, it owns that first publication right. Privacy means as long as the information is in your head, it is wholly yours. Once you share it on a blog or in a comment, it is the property of the site that hosts either the comments or the blog. The line between privacy and security is very crisp. The application of privacy is always the harder part. I published a post more than two years ago talking about the concept of image ownership.
You see, in the modern world, there are cameras everywhere. In the early evening, we walk our dogs around our neighborhood. The first time we walked around the neighborhood, there were in our neighborhood about 12 cameras. There are closer to 20 cameras seven years later. That isn’t a huge change overall, but the other day I was counting cameras in the downtown area of our city. It isn’t a big city, and when we first moved to our area, I calculated the visible cameras. There were around 31 cameras that were openly visible as you walked around our little downtown. Now (this was done two months ago), there are more than 60 visible cameras in our small city.
Privacy is the information you hold in your head. Protecting your privacy is a critical part of your security.
Yesterday’s Security Post
https://virily.com/virily_poll/security-is-all-about-you/
This work is Copyright DocAndersen. Any resemblance to people real or fictional in this piece is accidental (unless explicitly mentioned by name.)
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Did you know that a site that hosts your blog actually owns the first copyright unless you put a disclaimer?
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Even if you put a disclaimer the site that publishes your blog still owns the first publication?
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Yes
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you really can’t take a post from one site and put it on the other?
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Yes
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Privacy is harder than security?
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Yes
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Security is harder than Privacy?
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Very interesting. But, isn´t the author of the writing the real owner of anything he/she publishes??? It seems unfair if the Internet site owns the credit.
they own the right of first publication that includes the initial copyright. Why is that unfair? The risk is the sites not the authors…
I mean, the owner is the author, not the site
they own the legal right known as first publication. Until such time as they choose to release that right, it remains their right.
they don’t own the copyright and you can use your content in books and other places. but you won’t beatable to publish it on other paying blog sites because of that right of first publication.
It is part of GDPR and was setup to protect the rights of publishing platforms.
Q: DID YOU KNOW THAT A SITE THAT HOSTS YOUR BLOG ACTUALLY OWNS THE FIRST COPYRIGHT UNLESS YOU PUT A DISCLAIMER?
Yes (2 votes) – 100%
Q: EVEN IF YOU PUT A DISCLAIMER THE SITE THAT PUBLISHES YOUR BLOG STILL OWNS THE FIRST PUBLICATION?
Yes (1 votes) – 100%
Q: YOU REALLY CAN’T TAKE A POST FROM ONE SITE AND PUT IT ON THE OTHER?
Yes (1 votes) – 100%
Q: PRIVACY IS HARDER THAN SECURITY?
Yes (2 votes) – 100%
Q: SECURITY IS HARDER THAN PRIVACY?
Yes (2 votes) – 100%
i pinged my buddy who is a lawyer (intellectual property) in the EU. He said “right of first publication includes permanent copyright if not otherwise assigned at publication.” or, in English, if you but copyright in the document you own it after the first publication, but the site still owns the original publication even if they go out of business. Legally, however, they cannot republish your content.
Very interesting information. I didn’t know that. Is there anything we can do to prevent this from happening?
well for your content post a disclaimer and note that it is copyright you. Many people on the site do that with pictures today.
that at least protects you long term.
Is this the kind of statement you have under your posts?
yes my attorney advised me to include the last line on every post.
Thank you very much. Can I copy your statement a little? 😱
you are welcome to use it, thank you for asking!
Thank you very much for your permission. I will be happy to use it.
Security and privacy actually go hand in hand. We have to be very careful.
all day every day, unfortunately. it is the sad reality we live in.
In all aspects of our lives, you can never be too careful.
i keep telling CIOs that, as we move to the mobile tomorrow, the risk goes up unless we manage that risk up front.
That’s very interesting! Is the copyright disclaimer really enough? I guess it depends on the site’s terms and conditions too. I only know that if something is too valuable to me, I just shouldn’t post it. XD
the disclaimer in fairness doesn’t do a lot, they maintain first right of publication. but the copyright prevents them from having the right to second publication by default
Does that really when the site shuts down and disappears from cyberspace?
technically even though they are out of business they would still own the first copyright/first publication right.
it is a tricky legal question certainly