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What?

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Attribution 2.0

You are free:

• to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
• to make derivative works
• to make commercial use of the work

Under the following conditions:

• For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work.
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This is a human-readable summary of the Legal Code (the full license).

Why?

Because I’m a nice guy and because of things like this [ wikipedia.org ]! I think copyright is a good thing in general. But the insatiable desires of the capitalist enterprises chasing the all mighty dollar (or Euro, or Yen, or Pound, or Renminbi, or whatever) has pushed copyright so far beyond what is reasonable that they are in fact destroying the vary basis of what makes free markets and capitalism work. I don’t agree with the Copyright Term Extension Act (aka the Sunny Bono Act or the Mickey Mouse Act) which extended copyright but neither will I resort to piracy of copyrighted material. I choose to fight the system from within the framework of the law. I do not believe that we have come to a point where breaking the law is the only effective way of changing the law [ eldred.cc ].

Confusion.cc has been online since late in 2001 — before that there was another older will-not-be-mentioned-here site which has been lost in the fog and shadow of the early internet. This site originally started as a way to keep my close friends up-to-date with my wanderings in Europe as I went to school in London.

Admittedly confusion is filled with what Jeffery Zeldman [ zeldman.com ] would refer to as “dull personal commentary with a side order of self-importance” [ zeldman.com ] but perhaps one day my writing skills will improve and I might approach the depth of writing that Jonathon Delacour [ weblog.delacour.net ] has, or the beauty of opinion that Richard Geib [ rjgeib.com ] illuminated to the web before the ‘blogging phenomenon’ started.

In the meantime I will continue my dull personal commentary and occasionally update my photos and writing. All for my own benefit but then again this is my personal corner of cyberspace. I make no excuses for hideous grammar, asinine statements, blissfully ignorant worldviews or verbal diarrhea on this site. It is by me, for me and of me.