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July 04, 2005
WikiHow Responds to Criticism - Goes Creative Commons
Posted by Ernest Miller
A month ago, I was the recipient of a pitch for WikiHow, a "a collaborative writing project to build the world's largest how-to manual" based on the Wikipedia model. I blasted them because they had maintained the restrictive copyright licensing policies of eHow (WikiHow - Thanks, But No Thanks). However, they have now entirely switched over to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Much, much better. Right now they have prevented commercial use for fear of spammers horking the content to manipulate Google. Eventually, perhaps, this restriction can be modified.
Ross Mayfield has much more about this switch in licensing (WikiHow to Open Content).
I have to applaud them for discussing such a switch with their community and moving so quickly. Good job guys!
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Ernest Miller pursues research and writing on cyberlaw, intellectual property, and First Amendment issues. Mr. Miller attended the U.S. Naval Academy before attending Yale Law School, where he was president and co-founder of the Law and Technology Society, and founded the technology law and policy news site LawMeme. He is a fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
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