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February 01, 2005
Some Rights Reserved
Check out the future of Intellectual Property Rights management: Creative Commons is a non-profit that has created a voluntary "some rights reserved" copyright.
They define the spectrum of possibilities between full copyright (all rights reserved) and the public domain (no rights reserved). Their licenses help you keep your copyright while inviting certain uses of your work (some rights reserved).
Learn more about "some rights reserved" copyrights at CreativeCommons.org
Posted by Chuck at February 1, 2005 11:02 AM
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Cory Doctorow released his books "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" and "Eastern Standard Tribe" via Creative Commons. You can still download both books for free, or buy a bound copy on Amazon. My husband downloaded "Eastern Standard Tribe" and read it on his phone (which I think is sort of insane. I like old fashioned books!).
Anyway, there's an old argument (which I think Mike K introduced me to) that says there are little to no losses from piracy - that the kind of people who want a pirated copy of something aren't people who would have bought it in the first place, anyway. I'm not sure what that has to do with this, except that I was wondering if releasing the book online made Doctorow's book sales suffer. Somehow I think not.
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at February 3, 2005 08:54 PM