SiSU: - Homeland - Cory Doctorow

Homeland
So I want to be able to have this conversation, personally, unhurriedly, one-to-one. I want
to keep all the people involved in my books -- agents, subagents, foreign editors and their
bosses -- in the loop on these discussions. I will always passionately advocate for CC
licensing in all of my work. I promise you that if you write to me with a request for a
noncommercial derivative use, that I will do everything in my power to see that it is authorized.
And in the meantime, I draw your attention to article 2 of all Creative Commons licenses:
Nothing in this License is intended to reduce, limit, or restrict any uses free from copyright
or rights arising from limitations or exceptions that are provided for in connection
with the copyright protection under copyright law or other applicable laws.
Strip away the legalese and what that says is, “Copyright gives you, the public, rights. Fair
use is real. De minimus exemptions to copyright are real. You have the right to make
all sorts of uses of all copyrighted works, without permission, without Creative Commons
licenses.
Rights are like muscles. When you don't exercise them, they get flabby. Stop asking for
stuff you can take without permission. Please!
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Pandemonium: Cambridge, Mass
As you might expect, a town like Cambridge, Mass, is full of amazing nerdware purveyors.
When you're in spitting distance of both MIT and Harvard, there is a hell of a built-in market
for Cool Stuff. But sitting atop the mountain of geeky stores is Pandemonium Books,
a comics/RPG/book store right on Mass Ave (they used to be in The Garage in Harvard
Square, and their departure has left a huge hole in that space). There is practically nothing
I like better than to start a walk at MIT (possibly with a stop at the MIT bookstore) and
up Mass Ave, to Harvard, with a long, lingering stop at Pandemonium. There's always
something going on there -- someone playing a tabletop game, trading Magic cards, or
just talking animatedly about the kind of books I love.
‹Pandemonium: 4 Pleasant St, Cambridge, MA 02139 +1 617 547 3721›
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