On 10 April 2012 13:42, Andrew Gray <[email protected]> wrote:
> a) acquire copyrights (probably by bequest) in order to freely license them; > b) act as a clearinghouse to support "selling" the free licensing of > creative works (we pay you $1,000, you release your novel as CC-BY-SA) > c) support people contesting dubious takedown notices > d) support and train people in freely licensing their own work > (distribution logistics, negotiating with publishers, etc) There are people trying to do this with out-of-print science fiction, for example. AIUI, one of the big problems is author's estates with wild ideas of what an out-of-print midlist novel from the 1960s is actually worth (demanding ~$100k, etc). It's a tricky one. But successes would presumably snowball. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
