Do you mind if people take the song you created and mix it? Does it matter if someone takes your blog post and puts it on their website? Some people believe anything online is free and fair game to use as they please. But for most people that are creating original digital works, they want some sort of protection or rights. In Qatar, there doesn’t really seem to be any laws or regulations that protect a digital content creator’s rights. There are certainly some copyright laws, but do they apply online? The answer is vague at best. Recently many organizations have been adopting the Creative Commons license. Creative Commons is a non-profit organization that offers free, easy and standardized tools (licenses) for everyone – whether individual creators or large companies – to grant copyright permissions to the creative work. Read the full post on Digital Qatar blog: http://www.digitalqatar.net/2010/04/11/protecting-your-digital-content-rights/ and tell us what you think: do we really need content copyrights as more and more of us share, bookmark and digg content?

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