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(A)GPL as a license for fiction?
So, any GPL gurus out there know about the feasibility of using the GPL or AGPL as a license for fiction?
I'll explain a little about why I'm considering this option for my work in the future. Firstly I consider copyright irrelevant in a digital age. It's impossible to restrict the flow of information, especially fiction (because of size and storage and the tide of progress) and I can't see any reason why I'd want to restrict that information either. Secondly I want to participate in the greater culture and allow others to use what I've created for their own benefit. Thirdly, after using and looking at the Creative Commons, I'm not sure if it isn't anything but a pseudo-legalese way of saying - do what you're going to do anyway. The clauses about allowing to copy seem redundant when there's no way to stop that copying. The restrictions on remixing or not are antithetical to how culture builds naturally upon earlier works. And the non-commercial rule can only be defended against if you have the money for lawyers and the time to waste. So, taking this into account, would the (A)GPL work for my fiction? Can I give away my work and allow others to do whatever they like with that work, including make money, as long as they acknowledge who originated the work and license the result in a similar manner? I'm not versed entirely on how the (A)GPL works, I think I have the gist of it, but I'd like some opinions on how it might work or if it can even be done in relation to fiction. Also, I'm quite willing to entertain other licenses that capture the spirit of the free software movement. Thanks in advance. |
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In the digital age, does any copyright really work, unless one has the financial muscle to back it up ?
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Many pondering moments ahead. Damn, I wish I understood legal stuff a little more. |
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Well the GPL requires you to include the license as well this does seem to meet your needs, they can distribute, modify and sell, they have to keep it under the same license and have to keep your name on the text. It's what they use on open source textbooks.
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I think we have a winner (Until a challenger appears )
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From A to O - a lot of "thou must" - but who can stop the determined?
In this world in which we live, there is only one way to prevent work being copied/manipulated, and that is to not post it - in an electronic format [ in which case you've defeated yourself ]. Even work in print is copied; even if only to provide an electronic version to read Even artwork with copyright symbols across them are successfully pinched (go read many DeviantArt posts). |
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He told the audience to go home and write a poem, spend time on each line, get it as perfect as possible so that it was as near to perfect as possible in their eyes. Then he told them to take that poem, rip it up and throw it in the trash. The idea being that creation is the reward and anything beyond the creation meant very little. Once you'd finished with the creation it was truly out of your hands from thereon in. I suppose that's where I want to be, and where I feel we're going, and what I want to make happen. |
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How did you know that's what I do !!!!! Anything published is really my rubbish !!!!! Nah - bad joke .... Surely creation is the reward; praise from others, the icing and cherry on the top ? |
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