Give and Take

I want to take a moment to talk about my blog, one mouth in. I want to explain where I get my resources, of which my blog is dependent. What am I willing to take? How do I cite my source? Am I following copy right law?

I always try my best to follow my rules and copy right law as I understand it, but sometimes I will fall short. If I do someone wrong, right now I will say, preemptively, sorry.

I always will try to give a quick mention of where I got something. Not a full citation, but a quick mention. If I get an icon from word, I’ll say “I got it from Word”. I will just take icons from Word and photos/images from the creative commons on Word. I’ll reblog something only if I want it and the poster asks it to be rebloged. I won’t hesitate to make my own work and get it to the blog using one or several of the following: traditional art mediums, scanner, Word, Paint, and Snipping Tool. Where I will ask before blogging is if I don’t have “automatic” permission to post it. Where copyright protects people, I will try to obtain permission or not post it at all. For example, if I’m looking at a website and I learn something interesting I will not copy from the website without permission, nor will I paraphrase it, unless the information is incorporated into my general consciousness and is more my words and my understanding than the website’s.

Now on the other hand, if you see something on my blog you want to use, feel free. I mean it. Just take it, don’t notify me, and don’t hesitate to do so. Please spread the info. All I ask is that you mention you found it on my blog. If you happen to need to cite my blog, hear is the citation info: single author: Ruth Ewald, the date for each post is listed below the tile and in the url for that post, the work is, unless otherwise stated, published online, don’t forget to note the date you visited, the corporate sponsor or publisher is Western Washington University through Word Press, the location I’m posting out of is Bellingham/Western Washington University.

And two last notes. In art 109 Visual Dialogue, Alex Wolfsen and I worked together to publish a post for the class’s Word Press. Our post can be found here. Feel free to check out the rest of the website. Thanks for reading and thanks for following! This has been a long post, so now you should let your eyes get a screen break.