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Green Peace is also using this, not sure whether the German Pirate Party ripped it off from them or vice versa. http://greenpeace.org
Well that's probably why they're called Pirate Party :P
Credit to Zachary Johnson: https://github.com/zachstronaut/stop-sopa
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>ripped directly Author of the code: "I place this code in the public domain. I require no attribution." : https://github.com/zachstronaut/stop-sopa Your research-foo leaves much to be desired.
Just a note about copyright law: You can't legally place something in the public domain (even saying you want it public domain is meaningless). The best you can do is license it permissively giving up your five rights to copyright with a clear, perpetual and irrevocable license. The Apache license is a good one to use. This code as it stands is still fully copyrighted and copying it is technically a felony.
I find it strange that a method of protest appears to be an opportunity to see who can make the nicest looking one. Given the title of the thread, are some considering the blackout less of a political manoeuvre and more of a portfolio addition? Obviously they need to be attention grabbing enough to highlight the cause, but as a metric surely effectiveness is better than impressiveness?
"I find it strange that a method of protest appears to be an opportunity to see who can make the nicest looking one." Why not? Is a protest sign less credible if it's not made of cardboard and Sharpie™? You should make everything you touch beautiful.
Credit to Zachary Johnson: https://github.com/zachstronaut/stop-sopa
Thank you for posting this; my dev tools cut it off when I looked for attribution (terrible excuse, I just thought it was impressive).
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>ripped directly Author of the code: "I place this code in the public domain. I require no attribution." : https://github.com/zachstronaut/stop-sopa Your research-foo leaves much to be desired.
My bad. I thought the public domain code was just the mousehandler at the bottom, not all the CSS tricks above.
Edit: I would also like to point out that disabling javascript on wikipedia's page does not display the blackout and lets you continue to use the site (apologies if this was mentioned before)
Thank you for making sure the site is readable even though javascript is disabled (I mean this sincerely). Edit: I would also like to point out that disabling javascript on wikipedia's page does not display the blackout and lets you continue to use the site (apologies if this was mentioned before)
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>ripped directly Author of the code: "I place this code in the public domain. I require no attribution." : https://github.com/zachstronaut/stop-sopa Your research-foo leaves much to be desired.
Just a note about copyright law: You can't legally place something in the public domain (even saying you want it public domain is meaningless). The best you can do is license it permissively giving up your five rights to copyright with a clear, perpetual and irrevocable license. The Apache license is a good one to use. This code as it stands is still fully copyrighted and copying it is technically a felony.
I'd be very interested if anyone knows of a genuine situation in which one can't disclaim the IP rights one is offering up in a CC0 license (some aspect of moral rights?). I'm thinking of the possibility of problems with heirs-in-title, or somesuch, choosing to assert a right that their successor (the work's creator) wished to give up ... but really I can't see why an heir should be allowed such a right.
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