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lumpynose · 06-12-2019, 02:00 PM

I was wondering, is it possible to downgrade an existing copyright to Creative Commons Non-commercial?

I was thinking that it would be a great marketing and public relations move if, for example, Amazon were to advertise that they'll work with the copyright holders of books where the author is deceased (or even alive maybe) to change the copyrights to Creative Commons Non-commercial as well as work with the various project Gutenbergs, archive.org, and other e-book sites and submit these "re-copyrighted" books to them. Of course Amazon would also have in their store the ebooks in Kindle format for free.

The advantage to the copyright holders (e.g., descendants of the authors) being that I suspect that the reason they're maintaining and renewing the copyrights is not for any money they get from book sales but from potential money from rights for making movies, tv shows, etc. from the books and short stories. So the books would get a wider distribution and increased public awareness and the copyright holders could potentially still make money from the studios, and maybe the increased public awareness would increase the likelihood of them being licensed by the studios.

06-12-2019, 02:00 PM	#1
lumpynose Wizard Posts: 1,086 Karma: 6719822 Join Date: Jul 2012 Device: Palm Pilot M105	change copyright to creative commons non-commercial? I was wondering, is it possible to downgrade an existing copyright to Creative Commons Non-commercial? I was thinking that it would be a great marketing and public relations move if, for example, Amazon were to advertise that they'll work with the copyright holders of books where the author is deceased (or even alive maybe) to change the copyrights to Creative Commons Non-commercial as well as work with the various project Gutenbergs, archive.org, and other e-book sites and submit these "re-copyrighted" books to them. Of course Amazon would also have in their store the ebooks in Kindle format for free. The advantage to the copyright holders (e.g., descendants of the authors) being that I suspect that the reason they're maintaining and renewing the copyrights is not for any money they get from book sales but from potential money from rights for making movies, tv shows, etc. from the books and short stories. So the books would get a wider distribution and increased public awareness and the copyright holders could potentially still make money from the studios, and maybe the increased public awareness would increase the likelihood of them being licensed by the studios.