Copyrights Update

To the extent possible under law, Langerman has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work and all previously published works under FewDoIt including all pictures, and all videos, and "Balloon-O-Therapy and Easy Magic Tricks", and Twisting Balloons with FewDoIt. This work is published from: United States.

It means a lot to me.

Also, I feel obligated to give you some more details about this matter, read on.

According to the copyrights law of USA (click here to read the law or click here to read it in plain English), work (publication) is copyright protected the moment it is created. It is really good: all your tweets, comments, post, etc are protected. Also, works made by government employees (congressmen and congresswomen for example) become public property the moment the works are created. Also, under the current US copyright law, all your (not government officers) works are going to be in Public Domain 70 years after your death (click here for details). It is good for public. I mean it would be nice to have free access to your work, if any public would be interested in using your work some time in the future that you are not part of. Seriously, only dead people and government employees can see their works in Public Domain.

I want it NOW.

I believe that Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication licensing provides more freedoms to all users than any copyright licenses previously used by the FewDoIt project. Therefore, this license is effective for each and every work published under the FewDoIt project, in any media format, including all works published before December 30 of 2011. With the understanding that it is time consuming and often technically impossible to change (or remove) all other copyright signs from previously published works, I ask all users to disregard all other copyright signs.

I RESERVE NO RIGHTS. I released all my works in Public Domain.The FewDoIt project is for people. And so are all works licensed under Public Domain Dedication.

Have fun and happy twisting NOW :)

Copyrights

There is one sure way to avoid mistakes: do nothing. Doing nothing itself is also a mistake. Well, I do many things. Therefore I also make many mistakes. I learn from my mistakes to do better.

As of October 2011 all works (in all media formats) by http://www.fewdoit.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

By releasing all our works under this license, we mean to secure your (user of our works) rights to do what we believe is right: copy, edit, share, sell, give away, make yourself happy, and make other people happy.

We believe that the copyright law is confusing and contradicts itself. Thankfully there are also creative commons and public domains.

We believe that creative commons licensing provides more freedoms to all users than any copyright licenses previously used by the FewDoIt project. Therefore, this license is effective for each and every work published under the FewDoIt project, in any media format, including all works published before October 2011. With understanding that it is time consuming and often technically impossible to change (or remove) all other copyright signs from previously published works, we ask all users to disregard all other copyright signs.

The copyright does not protect ideas or designs. I want to reassure you that I personally have never claimed rights on an idea or a design of any work or any part of a work created under the FewDoIt project.

Knowledge does not come from a vacuum. It comes from everything that our universe consists of. I live in the world, I learn from the world. My works are inspired and derived from it. Only a vacuum derived from a vacuum. We do not live in a vacuum. You are as much part of this world as I am. We learn from each other. Thank you.

My view on copyrights matter:

The copyright laws introduced back in the 16^th century were supposed to help progress by protecting author’s rights. It gives the authors the privilege to decide how the rest of us should use their work. By the copyright law NOTHING can be derived from copyrighted works without the publisher’s permission. Even Bubble (among all books that teach to share) is copyrighted-meaning that our rights to use it are restricted by the publisher from any un-authorized use, including sharing…really? The copyright law makes it free to learn from the copyrighted work but one needs permission of the publisher to use the knowledge. Everything, every movie, every schoolbook, every web page is copyrighted. IT is not just some one’s work that is subject to copyrights. Look for the copyright sign at the bottom of your facebook, or your Google +, or your twitter and etc account. It is your account, your photos, your videos and your comments branded with a copyright sign.

Copyrighting creates monopoly on knowledge. How does it help people? It helps publishers to sell more copies. It also helps our governments to control access to knowledge (info). It slows the progress.

The copyright laws pretty much describe the ways we think and the ways we live. We say to our little kids fighting over a toy on a playground “WE HAVE TO SHARE”. We also say (less and less often though) that “WE ALL HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS”.

Do we?

The copyright terms create a difference between what users can do with the copyrighted work. As of today, it seems to me that the creative commons licensing is the most liberal to the users. I did not delve deep into the public domain, yet. My main concern is to provide as much access, to do whatever with my works (instructions), as possible for the end users. Full access also includes commercial activity-for people who want to make money.

Sound your questions, ideas, or suggestions in comments or email me at: fewdoit@gmail.com

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Have fun and happy twisting :)

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Copyrights ? It bugs me.

I believe the purpose of copyrights is to protect authors rights.
And I assume it does so.

I believe that Bible is the most favorite, popular book to ever been published, sold and been read. I suppose that every soul is aware of who the Author of the Bible is (and the entire universe for the matter). It has been around our civilization for about a couple thousands years. The authorships of this sacred book has been established well before the word “copyrights” came to our lexicon.

Open Bible. Open Torah. Open Koran. Open any and all modern edition of sacred books to find the copyrights note. It says names of publishers as THE copyrights holders. Indeed. Each edition has different copyrights holder.

The publishers (labels) have the rights to restrict (or permit) me from copying, giving away, selling, distributing the content of Bible in any forms. I would not care less about that, but I am suppose to be a law obeying citizen. Violation of copyrights is a crime and subject of FBI investigation. Be aware!...

Don't get me wrong. I don't question anyone rights ;)

God is. And publishers (labels) are too. Well, for the time being.

Many thanks to Fehmee Bthwaite for editing this text.

Have fun and happy twisting :)

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Important Copyrights Update

We made change in the FewDoIt policy. Now we release ALL instructions (all media formats) under Creative Commons:

This work by http://www.fewdoit.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.


We always distribute our works as free and, we mean to keep it this way.

All certificates of authorization to use our works issued previously hold the same rights.

This change means to simplify access to our instructions for you. It creates more opportunities for you and provides protection of your (user) rights.

The change we made prompted by a complicated situation in copyrights laws, attempts of different companies and government agencies to censor Internet.

I believe in universal freedom of non-violent expression, fair use, and free Internet.

Feel free to ask fewdoit@gmail.com