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Cory Doctorow Says DIY Licensing Will Solve Piracy

Posted by samzenpus on from the well-that-was-easy dept.

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.'"

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  1. Warning! by spun · · Score: 0, Troll

    Do not name your child Cory. All Corys grow up to be dumb as posts. Corey Haim. Corey Feldman. Cory Doctorow, all of them.

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    - None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
  2. Re:Paying pirates by mgabrys_sf · · Score: 0, Troll

    Citations provided - dick.