Applying a CC license and then saying, but really, I mean this … I think you can do it legally, but it sort of makes the whole CC scheme…broken. I mean, if you choose a no-derivs license and then say, well, except you can make fan art and write fanfiction, you appear to have chosen the wrong license. [Also, also, when you say you are cool with ( Read more... )

Dean Wesley Smith paints a fairly alarmist picture of Life After CopyrightI think his conclusions are least improbable with regard to the future of text-based publishing. Fiction writing as a profession might well disappear completely, and I wouldn't be surprised if non-fiction contracted a good deal. Not entirely, because there are more people who ( Read more... )

Lawsuit Claim: Students’ Lecture Notes Infringe on Professor’s Copyright

These lecture notes are being re-sold, which creates a different case from fanfiction, but the professor’s publisher argues, worryingly, that if a student simply posted their own lecture notes on the Internet, that would be infringing, too.