Comments on: Questions from Authors.. http://www.thepublicdomain.org/2008/11/28/questions-from-authors/ Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:05:20 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Advice for Authors on Negotiating With a Publisher About CC Licenses - Creative Commons http://www.thepublicdomain.org/2008/11/28/questions-from-authors/comment-page-1/#comment-389 Advice for Authors on Negotiating With a Publisher About CC Licenses - Creative Commons Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:31:41 +0000 http://www.thepublicdomain.org/?p=243#comment-389 [...] would be remiss not to mention James Boyle’s thoughts on the matter, particularly regarding his experience in licensing The Public Domain: Enclosing The [...] [...] would be remiss not to mention James Boyle’s thoughts on the matter, particularly regarding his experience in licensing The Public Domain: Enclosing The [...]

]]> By: blog.twidox.com » Blog Archive » Advice for Authors on Negotiating With a Publisher About CC Licenses http://www.thepublicdomain.org/2008/11/28/questions-from-authors/comment-page-1/#comment-296 blog.twidox.com » Blog Archive » Advice for Authors on Negotiating With a Publisher About CC Licenses Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:58:18 +0000 http://www.thepublicdomain.org/?p=243#comment-296 [...] would be remiss not to mention James Boyle’s thoughts on the matter, particularly regarding his experience in licensing The Public Domain: Enclosing The [...] [...] would be remiss not to mention James Boyle’s thoughts on the matter, particularly regarding his experience in licensing The Public Domain: Enclosing The [...]

]]> By: LEARN NC :: LEARN Learns » Blog Archive » James Boyle's new book under CC license http://www.thepublicdomain.org/2008/11/28/questions-from-authors/comment-page-1/#comment-60 LEARN NC :: LEARN Learns » Blog Archive » James Boyle's new book under CC license Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:47:06 +0000 http://www.thepublicdomain.org/?p=243#comment-60 [...] surprising that Boyle would do this; you may be interested though in his explanation/argument for doing so. Read the comments though to see what he thinks about distributed comment and [...] [...] surprising that Boyle would do this; you may be interested though in his explanation/argument for doing so. Read the comments though to see what he thinks about distributed comment and [...]

]]> By: jorel314 http://www.thepublicdomain.org/2008/11/28/questions-from-authors/comment-page-1/#comment-57 jorel314 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:10:18 +0000 http://www.thepublicdomain.org/?p=243#comment-57 For those interested in the public domain, there's a Wikipedia article called "<a href="http://bit.ly/omVL" rel="nofollow">List of notable people who dedicated works to the public domain</a>". For those interested in the public domain, there’s a Wikipedia article called “List of notable people who dedicated works to the public domain“.

]]> By: Kyle H http://www.thepublicdomain.org/2008/11/28/questions-from-authors/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Kyle H Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:38:46 +0000 http://www.thepublicdomain.org/?p=243#comment-32 The initial experiment with this kind of thing wasn't under the Creative Commons brand. Baen Books (a sci-fi publisher) started making some of its backlist available for download from its site for free without a specific license deed and without DRM. I've not heard of any author who has made a good-faith effort to make some of their backlist available for free who hasn't increased their revenue. The Science Fiction Writer's Association has essentially been taken to task by its members for organizationally fighting any kind of open-access capability, since they never actually looked at any data about, say, Mercedes Lackey's book sales through DAW increasing as an apparently-direct result of her putting part of her catalog up for free via Baen. Oddly, Baen was also the only publisher experimenting with e-books at the time to actually make any money with the program. For more information, please see http://www.baen.com/library/ . The initial experiment with this kind of thing wasn’t under the Creative Commons brand. Baen Books (a sci-fi publisher) started making some of its backlist available for download from its site for free without a specific license deed and without DRM.

I’ve not heard of any author who has made a good-faith effort to make some of their backlist available for free who hasn’t increased their revenue. The Science Fiction Writer’s Association has essentially been taken to task by its members for organizationally fighting any kind of open-access capability, since they never actually looked at any data about, say, Mercedes Lackey’s book sales through DAW increasing as an apparently-direct result of her putting part of her catalog up for free via Baen.

Oddly, Baen was also the only publisher experimenting with e-books at the time to actually make any money with the program. For more information, please see http://www.baen.com/library/ .

]]> By: Must-read: The Public Domain - Creative Commons http://www.thepublicdomain.org/2008/11/28/questions-from-authors/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Must-read: The Public Domain - Creative Commons Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:41:35 +0000 http://www.thepublicdomain.org/?p=243#comment-10 [...] read and subscribe to Boyle’s blog on The Public Domain, which includes an excellent post on authors, academic presses, online publishing and CC licensing. Brief excerpt, emphasis added to the truth that will be so obvious to readers of this blog that [...] [...] read and subscribe to Boyle’s blog on The Public Domain, which includes an excellent post on authors, academic presses, online publishing and CC licensing. Brief excerpt, emphasis added to the truth that will be so obvious to readers of this blog that [...]

]]> By: James Boyle http://www.thepublicdomain.org/2008/11/28/questions-from-authors/comment-page-1/#comment-8 James Boyle Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:16:54 +0000 http://www.thepublicdomain.org/?p=243#comment-8 Hi Mary -- no real reason for the skepticism except that it seems the best examples of distributed comment and annotation happen in the context of some particular project (building an encyclopedia, annotating a book for a class or a conference.) But as I said, I am happy to experiment and perhaps be surprised. And my skepticism is, in any case, specific and not general. As I point out in Chapter 10 we underestimate the potential of such schemes dramatically. Perhaps my reaction is another example of that! Hi Mary — no real reason for the skepticism except that it seems the best examples of distributed comment and annotation happen in the context of some particular project (building an encyclopedia, annotating a book for a class or a conference.)
But as I said, I am happy to experiment and perhaps be surprised. And my skepticism is, in any case, specific and not general. As I point out in Chapter 10 we underestimate the potential of such schemes dramatically. Perhaps my reaction is another example of that!

]]> By: Mary http://www.thepublicdomain.org/2008/11/28/questions-from-authors/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Mary Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:22:28 +0000 http://www.thepublicdomain.org/?p=243#comment-5 You write, in reference to the site Yale UP has built for your book: "Personally, I am skeptical of the whole commenting and annotation idea..." Why are you skeptical about this? You write, in reference to the site Yale UP has built for your book: “Personally, I am skeptical of the whole commenting and annotation idea…” Why are you skeptical about this?

]]> By: Stephen C. Rose http://www.thepublicdomain.org/2008/11/28/questions-from-authors/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Stephen C. Rose Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:19:29 +0000 http://www.thepublicdomain.org/?p=243#comment-4 Or: Write, create... Self-publish and sell via Amazon, etc. Create Kindle Books. At the same time giving away one way or another. No license needed. I have actually managed to wrest some books I wrote from their publishers. Should someone use anything I have written, no problem. Attribution is nice. A little anarchic, but it works for me. On Kindle I also create books from pd sources with no cr. Ultimately I believe there will be a form of payment to online persons based on a combination of popularity and significance, more or less like page rank, with fees being collected perhaps by ISPs and doled out somewhat as ASCAP or BMI doles out royalties. That will not happen until no one uses paper anymore. Or:

Write, create…

Self-publish and sell via Amazon, etc. Create Kindle Books.

At the same time giving away one way or another.

No license needed.

I have actually managed to wrest some books I wrote from their publishers.

Should someone use anything I have written, no problem.

Attribution is nice.

A little anarchic, but it works for me.

On Kindle I also create books from pd sources with no cr.

Ultimately I believe there will be a form of payment to online persons based on a combination of popularity and significance, more or less like page rank, with fees being collected perhaps by ISPs and doled out somewhat as ASCAP or BMI doles out royalties.

That will not happen until no one uses paper anymore.

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