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Using Common Domain Tools from the Raven Banner

If you should choose to place some of your own work in the Common Domain (without submitting it here, and letting us do the work) we're more than happy to provide the tools that we use for you. Of course, we'd love to have the Asatru related material here as well, but Common Domain works well for a number of different things, and we don't want to see it limited.

Basically, placing a document in the Common Domain is exactly equalvalent to making it available for distribution, while still retaining the copyright. Perhaps the easiest way to do this is to simply include the Common Domain License as part of your document:

Common Domain Document License
This work remains the sole property of <CopyRightHolder>.
It may be reproduced only in its entirety. All reproductions of this work must contain or link this Common Domain Document License, as well as the traditional copyright notice (Copyright © <yyyy> by <CopyRightHolder>) Distribution of substantively modified versions of this document is prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. Substantive modification means a change to the semantic content of the document, and excludes mere changes in format or typographical corrections, including translation to other languages. Appearance of this work in a collection of works, electronic or otherwise, does not constitute an endorsement by the author. This document is supplied as-is, without warranty of any kind.

You can download the Common Domain Document License as a text file here.

We have also written a small script in PHP that accepts as parameters DocumentTitle, CopyRightHolder and Year. To use this script, you may encode a URL as follows:

http://www.ravenbanner.com/cd_copy.php?DocumentTitle=Your+Document&CopyRightHolder=Your+Name&Year=2001

Notice how the plus side replaces spaces in the title and name. This is required for URL encoding. There are other characters which must be treated specially in a URL. There's a table of them below. If no parameters are added to the URL, you will get a default window, with the title of "This Document" and "CopyRightHolder" as the name. Here's an example, using the above as a link:

Clicking this link will bring up the Common Domain Document License in the current browser window. We have also written and made available a small JavaScript function that dows the same thing, only in a new, smaller browser window. To use this, you will have to place the function somewhere in your page before the copyright notice. This is usually done in the <HEAD> section of the document. Here's the function:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
function showCommonDomain(DocumentTitle, CopyRightHolder, CopyRightYear)
{
      var cpyStr;
      if (DocumentTitle.length) cpyStr = "DocumentTitle="+escape(DocumentTitle);
      if (CopyRightHolder.length) cpyStr = cpyStr + "&CopyRightHolder=" + escape(CopyRightHolder);
      if (CopyRightYear.length) cpyStr = cpyStr + "&Year=" + escape(CopyRightYear);
      awindow=window.open("http://www.ravenbanner.com/cd_copy.php?" + cpyStr,             "CommonDomainWindow","toolbar=no,width=400,height=450,status=no,scrollbars=yes,resize=yes,menubar=no");
      awindow.focus();
}
</SCRIPT>

Once the script is in place, you can call it like you would a link( the document title is "It's My Document" - notice the special character encoding for the apostrophe):

<A HREF="javascript:showCommonDomain('It&#146s My Document','My Name','2001');"><FONT
SIZE="-1">Copyright &COPY; 2001 by My Name</FONT></A>

Here's what the above line looks like on the page: Copyright © 2001 by My Name Go ahead and click it - it's active ....

The Javascript is also available as a text file here.

Here's a Common Domain Document License image you may use

While this button is available, we do not reccommend that you use it as a link or map to the Common Domain Document License hosted here, unless you also include your copyright notice in the document. This is for your protection, as a copyright notice should always appear in the document being copyrighted. The actual text of distribution rights may be given elsewhere, but the copyright should appear in the text (or embedded in the image as a watermark) itself.

Unfortunately, we cannot support your use of our tools. This means that the tools (the JavaScript source and the PHP file) are provided "as-is" and without warranty of any kind, and are released under the GNU GPL.We may be able to answer the odd email concerning their use, but cannot, on a regular basis, offer any kind of professional support

Thanks for considering the Common Domain!

Encoding Special HTML Characters
Description	Encoding
... Ellipsis
‘ Opening curved single quotation
’ Closing curved single quotation
" Opening curved double quotation
" Closing curved double quotation
• Bullet
– En dash
— Em dash
© (copyright symbol)	©
® (registration mark)	®
¢ (cent sign)	¢
" Quotation mark	"
& Ampersand	&
< Less than	<
> Greater than	>
À	À
Á	Á
Â	Â
Ã	Ã
Ä	Ä
Å	Å
Æ	Æ
Ç	Ç
È	È
É	É
Ê	Ê
Ë	Ë
Ì	Ì
Í	Í
Î	Î
Ï	Ï
Uppercase Icelandic eth	Ð
Ñ	Ñ
Ò	Ò
Ó	Ó
Ô	Ô
Õ	Õ
Ö	Ö
Ø	Ø
Ù	Ù
Ú	Ú
Û	Û
Ü	Ü
Uppercase Y with acute accent	Ý
Uppercase Icelandic thorn	Þ
ß	ß
à	à
á	á
â	â
ã	ã
ä	ä
å	å
æ	æ
ç	ç
è	è
é	é
ê	ê
ë	ë
ì	ì
í	í
î	î
ï	ï
Lowercase Icelandic eth	ð
ñ	ñ
ò	ò
ó	ó
ô	ô
õ	õ
ö	ö
Ø	ø
ù	ù
ú	ú
û	û
ü	ü
Lowercase y with acute accent	ý
Lowercase Icelandic thorn	þ
ÿ	ÿ

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