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Originally Posted by Moxie Mezcal
There are plenty of way IP as it currently exists hurts the artist to benefit the corporation for all but the highest echelon of megastars. Look at Danger Mouse's problem releasing "Dark Night of the Soul" (the recording sessions for which personally bankrolled with no involvement from the studio). Or, as an avid comic book fan, I've always been interested in the struggle of Jack Kirby and other creators (and now their heirs) of classic characters to win back some modicum of control over their creations from Marvel/Disney and DC/Warner.
What's better for those schools? Hundred-dollar hardback textbooks or print-on-demand paper copies? What's better for those libraries? What's better for the environment?
You hold your nose in disdain at the photocopy of a PD or CC work for your inner-city library, ignoring the fact that such an option would exponentially increase the number of books those kids would have access to. Of course, Doubleday won't be pocketing $30 for the glossy hardback of Harry Potter, but I'm more concerned about the kids.
I can't speak for Moejoe, but personally I use a CC NC-BY-SA license for my own stuff, which I distribute 100% free (except on Amazon because they won't let me list for under $0.99). At the same time, if I woke up tomorrow and saw that Disney had made a movie based on one of my stories, I would be beside myself with glee, even if they hadn't paid me one red cent.
And I'm dead-to-real serious on this one. If anyone knows Bob Iger, you can pass on the message: Moxie Mezcal will not sue you for making a Sweet Dream, Silver Screen movie.
I mean it, Bob. You don't even need to send me an invitation to the premiere or a contributor's copy DVD.
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The license I use is...crap I can't remember, it's basically do what the f**k you like as long as you don't make any green from it. But where I do differ from you (and the reason I don't put my stuff into the Public Domain as I'd like) is that I don't want Homogenous companies like Disney and Mega-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net making profits from my work (they've already been doing that for 60 years the cheeky *** with PD works). I would raise Disneyland to the ground if I heard they'd used one of my stories as a springboard for their terrible, ever more dull, mulch. And failing that I'd go round and personally punch every single one of the corporate board.
But that's just my opinion
I've often thought it would be a fun experiment to approach the traditional publishing game as a kind of story-within-a-story. Invent a character, write up a couple of chapters and an outline, then go the 'usual' route - send it off to an agent, blah blah blah, but all the while the actual 'real' book would be about how the industry works and, more truthfully, how little it does work in favour of the author. Damn, I might just do that this week.