Yeah... I've stopped using those. Now, whenever I used them, I was very careful to spell out whatever I was and was not permitting (make icons, do not repost). The only reason I used them, really, was because it gave an official veneer--it's like, people didn't believe me when I said the piece was copyrighted unless I "applied for" the little graphic at the bottom. There's a severe misunderstanding of the way copyright works for so many, many people. Particularly the way people seem to believe that putting something on the internet = public domain. I really believe people confuse "public access" with "public domain."

Hmm. Since copyright is flexible in the sense that you can specify exactly what you want to permit when you want to permit it, I wonder if I should put a graphic that says "ALL rights reserved," and then in text add, "Except that icons, links, and quotations are okay." I mean those might be fair use anyway, but people may not know that off the top of their heads.