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Cory Doctorow Says DIY Licensing Will Solve Piracy
An anonymous reader writes "The founding editor of Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow, has written a report about 'do-it-yourself' digital licensing, which he's touting as the panacea for piracy. Doctorow's solution for content creators is two-fold: get a Creative Commons license and append some basic text requiring those who re-use your work to pay you a percentage of their gross income. Doctorow refers to this as the middle ground between simply acquiring a Creative Commons license and hiring expensive lawyers for negotiations. He calls do-it-yourself licensing 'cheap and easy licensing that would turn yesterday's pirates into tomorrow's partners.'"
Yippie! I'm certain that since this solution has Doctrow's name attached to it pretty much all of the world's digital piracy will be solved.
I can only hope he solves open sea piracy next.
This man is a GOD!
This is not thought through in the slightest.
When he says pirates, he means people out to make money using material they have no rights to reproduce otherwise.
In other words, a tiny, tiny, tiny percentage of pirates.