Tumblr is full of people exuberantly infringing copyright as they share culture. Rather than risking copyright infringement, I prefer to stick to free culture works ~ which are either licensed to share or in the public domain.
I also take care to credit and attribute anything I reblog, even if it is public domain work.
Many Tumblr themes come with a built in Copyright All Righs Reserved declaration.
But if you’re like me, if you think culture should be shared freely, you don’t have to leave your tumblog locked up in copyright – you can give your Tumblog a free culture license instead.
Tumblr allows users to publish our blogs under any license we like.
Here’s how:
There is a menu at the top of your dashboard that has a gear icon (second from the right)
When you click the gear you get a menu
>choose EDIT THEME
Now you’ll be in the customize menu, and in the left sidebar at the top you will see “Custom theme” and directly under this
>>click the link that says Edit HTML >
In the Edit HTML sidebar hold down the Control key and press “F” (for find)
and a search bar will appear at the top of the sidebar
in the search box type © 2014
> press the down arrow and it will take you right to the place that says © 2014
This is where you can type in the details of the license information you wish
to replace © 2014 with:
<a rel=”license” href=”http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US”><img alt=”Creative Commons License” style=”border-width:0″ src=”http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88×31.png” /></a><br />
<a href=”http://YOURtumblrNAME.tumblr.com/” rel=””cc:attributionURL””>The NAME OF YOUR TUMBLR</a> by YOUR NAME HERE is licensed under a <a href=””http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en”” rel=””license””>Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License</a>
which will look like this:
The NAME OF YOUR TUMBLR by YOUR NAME HERE is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License
Have fun spreading free culture!
Image Credit:
Public Domain Copyright Jail by Nina Paley @ Question Copyright