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It Has Been A While
Regular readers might have noticed that the content on this blog has been thinning out over the past few months. I would like to say because we are working on bigger and better things for this site, but unfortunately – we’re not.
We have been a bit busy, and the visitors to this site has not been as high as we would like them.
I am currently deciding whether or not to continue this site or to sell it. We began in January 2008, and 1 and a half years later, we are proud where we are.
In the future, you probably will not see any more posts to this site and chances are, we will permanently stop and eventually shut it down.
We don’t want to stop posting for our readers, but we don’t have the time or the resources. If you want us to keep posting, please comment to this post and tell us. If we have enough support, we will continue.
We are also open for offers, so if you want to purchase Jicola Blogs, please let us know.
Regards,
Jicola
Useful Information regarding copyright in Australia on the Internet
Do you own and run your own website or blog in Australia? Then you might want to have a look at a few fact sheets by the Australian Copyright Council.
Did you know that any original content that you write on your website is automatically protected by copyright?
There is no system of registration for copyright protection in Australia.
You do not need to publish your work, to put a copyright notice on it, or to do anything else to be covered by copyright — the protection is free and automatic. There are no forms to fill in, and there are no fees to be paid. You do not have to send your work to us or to anyone else.
A work is protected automatically from the time it is first written down or recorded in some way, provided it has resulted from its creator’s skill and effort and is not simply copied from another work. For example, as soon as a poem is written, or a song is recorded, it is protected.
Australian copyright works are protected in most other countries, and copyright works from most other countries are protected in Australia.
Source: Copyright Basics. More information about how you can get copyright can be found here.
Did you know copyrighted material lasts for 70 years after the contributors death?
For most material, copyright lasts for 70 years after the end of the year of the creator’s death, or 70 years from the end of the year the material was first made public.
The source and more information on how long copyright lasts can be found here.
Did you know that if you run a website such as a forum with user generate content (UGC) you do not necessarily own that content.
Under the Information Sheet G057v08, contributors own the content that they post on your website, unless contributors agree to give their permission before or after they have posted content on your website.
If you do wish to acquire copyright in material users post to your site, you will need to have contributors assign
copyright to you by “signing” a written agreement to that effect. In this context, typing their name may
constitute a “signature”, but you may need legal advice on this.
If you do not own the rights to the user generate content, you will not be entitled to use their material offline and grant website visitors permission to only view and listen to the content.
If you want to own the UGC, you may be able to contact them after they have made this content (if possible) and make sure you have terms and conditions stating who will own the content.
Did you know that if someone uploaded copyright material to your website such as someone else’s photo or music, you may be liable if legal action is taken.
In some cases, UGC may infringe copyright. For example, a contributor may post someone else’s photo, or upload
a video that uses someone else’s music in its soundtrack. This may often be as a result of ignorance on the part
of the contributor but, whether or not you are aware of the infringing material, you are likely to liable if there is
an action for copyright infringement.
To protect yourself from this, make sure you set out a binding agreement with contributors that will indemnify you from any infringing behaviour. Make sure you get a lawyer to draft your terms. Make sure you remind contributors not to post copyrighted content without the owners consent and that you will remove any posts that violate this rule. Also moderate the content so you can remove potential copyright material before it becomes a problem. If a problem does arise, remove the content immediately.
The source and more information about user generated content can be found on The Australian Copyright Council Website.
Do you know when you can use copyrighted material?
- The copyright has expired
- The content is not protected by copyright
- You are not use a ‘substantial part’ of the full content
- In special exceptions
Source: Information Sheet G057v08.
Did you know that direct linking to third-party website content may be illegal?
If you direct link to someone else’s content, it may be illegal because you are bypassing that websites homepage.
More information can be found from Information Sheet G057v08.
For more information on copyright in Australia, please visit the Australian Copyright Council by visiting: http://www.copyright.org.au. For more Information Sheets, visit http://www.copyright.org.au/publications/infosheets.htm
*Disclaimer: This post is intended for general information only and a summary of notes from the Australian Copyright Council website. For legal advice, please see qualified person. Information from this post (including quotes) has been gathered from http://www.copyright.org.au. If any incorrect information has been interpreted, please post in the comments.
Unscheduled Outages across all Jicola.com Sites
We are currently having database issues so some of our sites may be temporarily offline. Their have been major server changes outside our control which are causing these errors.
Sites will be back to normal shortly.
Jicola Blog Posts Restored
Just to let everyone know, we have done the best we could to restore all our posts that we lost from now to the beginning of February. However, so information on the post times were lost or are out of position.
We hope that we all the posts back online, otherwise it was ‘wasted work’.
So if you notice a post missing, please let us know, so we can track it down and upload it.
You may notice some duplicate posts as well.
Also note: we have lost our pictures assigned to the posts.
Ways to stay in contact with Jicola Blogs
There are many ways that you can stay in contact with Jicola.com Blogs to get the latest news and updates.
Recently, we just developed a referral script which allows you to send a message to your friends telling them how good our site is. You can access the form at the bottom of the sidebar on our home page and other pages. Just enter your friends email address, your name and your email (so your friends know who you are) and a custom message.
Other ways to stay up-to-date is to add http://blogs.jicola.com/feed to your Google Reader account or other RSS reader. You can also subscribe to other readers by click on the subscribe which is on top of the sidebar.
If you are a registered member of Jicola.com Blogs, you are automatically subscribed to our Weekly Newsletter which sends out a snippet of all our posts that were made in that week. If you would like to subscribe to our newsletter, simply enter your email address on the form on the sidebar, or register an account
Registering an account with Jicola.com Blogs is easy. You can create your own account or login with your Gmail account or Open ID account. By doing so, you can comment, manage your email subscription and more.
So what are you waiting for? Register and account, subscribe to the newsletter, subscribe to the RSS feed and refer your friends to Jicola.com Blogs
Website Outage
You may have noticed that our website may have been down the past couple of days, and this is due to a failed Hard Drive and Corrupt backups from the web host.
The backup being restored is from 5th of Feb, so our recent posts have been lost, but these posts have been kept elsewhere which will soon be uploaded.
In the mean time, new posts will be stopped until it is clear that more recent backups where kept.
Get Free Advertising for your site
That’s right, you can now get free advertisement for your website. Get listed at the bottom of every single page blog post. All you have to do, register for an at Jicola Blogs and email: advertise[at]jicola.com with your the code of the ad that you want to appear on our site.
In return all you have to do is email us 3 unique technology or untrue or gaming or entertainment blog post per week for your site to remain shown.
For more information on this incredible deal, email advertise[at]jicola.com.
So now it is possible to advertise your site for free.
Jicola Blogs New Year Changes
We have worked hard the past months to give you the best and up-to-date information technology, entertainment and other fun things.
Everything was on one page and one theme. But we wanted to change that.
So now, we have a different look for each of the area’s of our blogs.
Our Technology blog will still look the same, but it will be easier to distinguish between our other blogs such as the Entertainment blog, Gaming blog and Untrue blog.
Our different looks are now ready, but we will be further customising theme so it is easier to navigate around our site.
We hope you like the changes.
Happy Australia Day
Since we are located in Australia, we would like to wish everybody a Happy Australia Day.
We hope you got your friends and family together, put on the BBQ, had some drinks and had a good day.
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