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I find it disconcerting to see Cory Doctorow talk about restrictive copyright issues while he hasn't, to my knowledge, released anything substantial into the co

I find it disconcerting to see Cory Doctorow talk about restrictive copyright issues while he hasn't, to my knowledge, released anything substantial into the commons. The work that he does put a "creative commons" license under is always with a restrictive "non-commercial" license. I'm glad that he advocates for freedom and liberty and it's not like hypocrisy makes these arguments any less valid but it does leave me feeling a bit weird.

slavik81 9y ago
Is it actually hypocritical? There's a lot of room to make copyright less restrictive without entirely abolishing it. For example, by only granting copyright protections to DRM-free works. Or requiring renewal every so often, so that abandoned works can still be used. We don't need to make the world CC BY-SA to fix copyright. It helps where we do, but it's not the only way.