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#Pixel people civil servant license
It's ridiculous to say that people who want to "loan" their electronic copy of my book to a friend need to get a license to do so. It's just stupid to say that an elementary school classroom should have to talk to a lawyer at a giant global publisher before they put on a play based on one of my books. I hate the fact that fans who want to do what readers have always done are expected to play in the same system as all these hotshot agents and lawyers. What's more, there's just not that many of these negotiations-even if I sell fifty or a hundred different editions of Context (which would put it in top millionth of a percentile for reprint essay collections), that's still only a hundred negotiations, which I could just about manage. I'm in a pretty good position when it comes to negotiating with these companies: I've got a great agent and a decade's experience with copyright law and licensing (including a stint as a delegate at WIPO, the UN agency that makes the world's copyright treaties). It's nice that they can't just take my stuff without permission and get rich on it without cutting me in for a piece of the action. I like the fact that copyright lets me sell rights to my publishers and film studios and so on. Here's what I think of it, in a nutshell: a little goes a long way, and more than that is too much. The Creative Commons license at the top of this file probably tipped you off to the fact that I've got some pretty unorthodox views about copyright. See the end of this file for the complete legalese. Any of the above conditions can be waived if you get our permission.For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work.No Derivative Works-You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.You may not use this work for commercial purposes. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). to Share-to copy, distribute and transmit the work.This book is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 license. And we hope that, having read it, you rush straight out to your local bookseller and buy a copy-or, if you prefer to buy the ebook or have the smashing and lovely physical book delivered to you, here are some links that will let you reward our generosity and trust with a voluntary, non-coerced purchase of our humble article of commerce.īooksense (will locate a store near you!) We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed writing it (though, truth be told, we really enjoyed writing it). Rather than send you off to the kind of site you'd better visit through a proxy with your cookies turned off, we're giving you this-here free, pristine, hand-crafted ebook in a variety of formats.
#Pixel people civil servant free
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