Numly's Featured Author

Numly, the web 2.0 copyright service, is now featuring a new author or artist every week. Our first featured author is Jonathan Bailey.

Jonathan is a talented and accomplished writer with a passion for fighting plagiarism. He is the blogger behind Plagiarism Today and was interviewed in today's plagiarism article in the Boston Globe entitled Online Plagiarism Strikes Blog World.

Numly.com assigns Numly Numbers (Electronic Serial Numbers / ESNs) for all things digital. These unique identifiers provide digital rights management capabilities as well as third-party, non-repudiation measures for proof of copyright via real-time verifications. Numly Numbers are simple to generate and act as an electronic timestamp for copyright purposes. They also allow you to track content viewership, monitor ratings, and can be used as permalinks!

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Poor Man's Copyright 2.0

Wikipedia defines the poor man's copyright (PMC) as "the method of using registered dating by the postal service or a notary public to date intellectual property, thereby helping to establish that the material has been in one's possession since a particular time."

There are many reasons while the PMC doesn't hold up in court but probably the most frequently cited reason is that it is too easy to fraud. You can send yourself an empty letter (unsealed envelope) and receive a postmark. Upon receipt or at a later date you can put anything inside the envelope and then seal it.

Numly can help but you need access to a computer with Internet access! Authors and artists can now upload their digital works to Numly and receive a registered Numly Number in exchange. Their digital works are date and time stamped in Numly's databases. The content is digitally fingerprinted for future reference and verification. Numly Numbers can be posted online along with the digital asset. The Numly Number serves as your copyright disclaimer and can be verified by anyone wiching to learn more about the author, publisher, copyright license, licensee, and timestamp. Viewership (including IP addresses) is also tracked for your reporting needs.

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Removing Numly Numbers is Illegal

Did you know that it is officially illegal to remove Numly Numbers from their affixed works? That's right! According to the 4th provision of the DMCA, the alteration of copyright management information is prohibited. For more information on this provision, check out the following links:

http://depts.washington.edu/uwcopy/Copyright_Law/DMCA/Provisions.php#section4

http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/?p=228

Numly Numbers serve as copyright managements information. Each Numly Number represents the copyright license (All rights reserved or Create Commons) of a digital work along with the date and time stamp of the submission of the digital work to Numly. Numly Numbers also represent the title of the work, the author, the name of the copyright owner, the terms and conditions for use of the work. Numly Numbers can also be used to reference the digital rights (DRM) of the licensee of the assigned number.

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Numly Back in Beta

Numly is following the same path as many of the other Web 2.0 start-ups. Enhancements are being introduced almost on a daily basis - no release schedules here. With this level of development, we thought that it was only fair to put the site back into beta and ask for your continued patience with our enhancements and feedback.

We appreciate your support. Join the (R)evolution and (C)opyright your work with Numly!

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Link Rel=Copyright Tag

Did you know that there is a copyright tag in the HTML? The Link tag can be used to establish copyright as well as stylesheet and RSS feed usage. The link tag resides inside the head tags of the page and its usage is:

<link rel="copyright" title="Copyright Lincese" href="...url..." >

To exploit the full power of this tag, you can use the Numly verification link as the URL of your copyright license in the href attribute. Below is an example of how Numly.com uses the link copyright tag in its website:

<LINK REL="COPYRIGHT" TITLE="Copyright License" HREF="http://verify.numly.com/27200-060121-189140-97" >

As you can imagine, the Numly.com website has its copyright registered with Numly and was assigned 27200-060121-189140-97 for its Numly Number. Numly has a free verification service that allows you to verify the work and its author and its copyright license by simply including the following link:

http://verify.numly.com/esn where esn is your registered Numly Number.

Numly supports the following licenses:

All Rights Reserved
Creative Commons - Attribution 2.5
Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5
Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5
Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5
Creative Commons - Attribution-NoDerivs 2.5
Creative Commons - Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5
Creative Commons - Public Domain

If you are not already using Numly to protect your digital content copyrights, sign-up for your free account today!

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Copyright Power to the People!

Have you heard about the Small Claims Court proposal for copyrights? Check out Plagiarism Today's and William Patry's recent blogs for more details. The basic idea is that you could handle most personal copyright infrigement cases of a smaller dollar amount in a small claims court.

Perhaps a Numly registration is all that would be needed to prove your copyright claim submission date. We would like to think so but we will need to wait to see how this proposal shakes out.

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Numly Widget Supports Creative Commons

Numly, a Web 2.0 startup focused on Copyright 2.0 solutions, has just released version 1.2 of its Apple OSX Widget. In addition to the mark submission as private flag and the optional barcode and rating system features, Numly has added support for Creative Commons licenses.

Until recently, Numly has only supported the All Rights Reserved copyright license. Now you can select from a list of 7 Creative Commons licenses including Public Domain. A list of the supported Creative Commons licenses can be found at http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/meet-the-licenses

Currently Creative Commons support of Numly Numbers is available through the Numly.com web portal and the Apple Widget. Changes to our Firefox extension have also been made but are pending Mozilla approval. A beta version of our WordPress plug-in with Creative Commons support is also available at the following link: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/69426?replies=1#post-365406

Upon registration of your content with Numly, you will receive an official Numly Number for your content to prove your copyright claim along with all of the necessary HTML code to display your Numly Number and Creative Commons (or All Rights Reserved) licenses in your work. The Numly code contains a tracking mechanism that allows you to see all IP addresses and companies that have viewed your content online as well as an optional barcode and approval ratings.

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Numly's Copyright 2.0 Blog

Numly has given its blog an easy name to remember, Copyright 2.0.

We believe that publishing and copyrights and DRM that exist today will change for the better in the near future. Slow media companies and paper-based government agencies won't be able to keep up with the mass population moving to digital media and the social-based applications that web 2.0 companies are bringing to the network on a daily basis.

Copyright 2.0 enhancements should include:

- Real-time and online registration solutions
- Trackable and verifiable copyright identifiers
- Online access to copyright libraries and content owner lookup
- Support of microformats
- Support for both All Rights Reserved and Creative Commons
- Support of new Web 2.0 mediums and concepts such as tagging
- Support of all digital media formats

Numly is working hard to secure this functionality for the growing population of content creators. Please visit our site at http://numly.com.

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How Does Numly Work?

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Numly Supports Orphaned Works Proposal

Have you heard about the Orphaned Works proposal being proposed throught the Copyright Office? Orphaned Works are content (documents, images, songs, art, etc.) where the original copyright holder can no longer be located.

Jonathan Bailey from Plagiarism Today does an excellent job in covering this proposal in a series of blog postings starting with http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/?p=214. As Jonathan points out, Numly is uniquely positioned as a "caretaker" in facilitating the research role in the Orphaned Works proposal.

Digital works can be uploaded to Numly along with meta data about the author and copyright in return for a Numly Number. A digital fingerprint of the digital asset is created and stored in the Numly databases. If you find an image online (or any other digital document), you can determine if it has been registered at Numly and who the author/artist is via the Numly Document Validator in the Numly portal. By simply uploading the digital asset in question, Numly will return the associated Numly Number of the work along with all of the copyright meta data and a contact link. The contact link uses Numly's Secure Message Center to forward your message to the copyright holder (even if their email address has changed).

This new feature should make finding the copyright holders of orphaned works possible! Let us know what you think!

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Numly Releases New Apple Widget

Numly, a Web 2.0 copyright and DRM service provider, has just released a new version of its Apple OSX Widget! This widget includes updated URL and mark private flag and optional barcode and rating system addtitions for your copyright content.

You can download your free copy today from:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/blogs_forums/generatenumlycopyrightid.html

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Numly Releases New FireFox Extension

Numly, the assigner of Numly Numbers, has just released an updated version of its FireFox Extension. This version includes the optional mark content private flag and barcodes and ratings. There is also a URL update included in this release that makes the extension more responsive.

This is a *must* download for all authors and artists wishing to copyright or license their digital works. Numly Numbers are assigned to each license of your works allowing you to treat them as a form of digital rights management in addition to proof of copyright.

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