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Comment The "basic text" (Score 1) 1

by peoplesignDave (#27948109) Attached to: Cory Doctorow Says DIY Licensing Will Solve Piracy
"You are free to use the visual, textual, and audiovisual elements of this work in commercial projects, provided that you remit 20 percent of the gross income arising from your sales to doctorow@paypal.com. You are required to remit these funds on a quarterly basis, or on an annual basis where the total owing is less than $100."

So it's kind of like a reverse I.O.U., shall we call it a U.O.M? (yoU Owe Me?)
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An Australian Space Agency At Last? 189

Posted by samzenpus from the up-and-down-under dept.
Dante_J writes "In the Australian Federal budget presented last night, as well as big national infrastructure spending, an amount of $48.6 million over four years was allocated for an 'Australian Space Science Program.' Normally a space program is managed by a space agency. Does this now mean that Australia will follow the recommendations of the Senate Space Science report and give up its rather inadequate title of the only top-20 GDP nation not to have one? With nations like Vietnam, Bangladesh and Bulgaria forming or maintaining space agencies, this government infrastructure is obviously not limited to G-20 nations. Discussions to combine Australian and New Zealand airspace have been undertaken; should that translate to aerospace too, and both nations form an ANZAC space agency together?"
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Submission + - Cory Doctorow Says DIY Licensing Will Solve Piracy 1

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An anonymous reader writes: Founding editor of Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow has written a report about "do-it-yourself" digital licensing, which he's touting as the panacea for piracy. Doctorow's solution for content creators is two-fold: Get a Creative Commons license, and append some basic text requiring those who re-use your work to pay you a percentage of their gross income. Doctorow refers to this as the middle ground between simply acquiring a Creative Commons license and hiring expensive lawyers for negotiations. He calls do-it yourself licensing "cheap and easy licensing that would turn yesterday's pirates into tomorrow's partners."

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