Cory Doctorow Says DIY Licensing Will Solve Piracy
An anonymous reader writes “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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