
A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
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The Point of Creative Commons Licenses
Pixy sends speculative invoices to people who correctly understand that they have the right to do what they have done, threatening them in order to obtain license fees. The point of creative commons licenses is to allow copyright holders to exercise their copyrights in a way that facilitates sharing and re use. If you are a good faith user of c c licenses, then your response to an incorrect attribution string should be a request to correct it, not a threat to sue for a hundred and 50 thousand dollars in statutory damages. You send threats instead of request for correction, then you are a terrible person - shame on you.
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