Digg

We've just made a few small but significant changes to Digg. For the past few years, all of the content on Digg has been licensed as public domain. Comments, story titles, story descriptions, and all of the other user-contributed content on the Digg site are explicitly put into the public domain so that others can do great things with them. This is good for the internet and good for society.

As of today, we've taken that one step further by upgrading our public domain waiver to Creative Commons Zero (CC0). The CC0 waiver expresses that content posted on Digg is public domain even internationally. A minor point maybe, but our previous public domain dedication was only clear within the USA. When a friend from Creative Commons suggested that we move to a CC0 waiver, to even more clearly affirm our intentions, it seemed obvious. And, as we try to always do when we change something that affects the content that you (our users) submit to Digg, we're trying to keep you informed about it.

To reflect this change, we've updated the language of our Terms of Use agreement. See Section #6 of the TOU to review the new wording. The notice in the footer on every page of Digg has also been updated.

Go forth and keep doing all of the wonderful commenting, submitting, and voting – even more so within the public domain than you were before.

Daniel