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Case Studies/Cory Doctorow

2010-10-24T15:54:44Z

Tommyogp:

{{Case Study|Description=Cory Doctorow is a writer, blogger, and futurist that has embraced the ideals of Creative Commons from the beginning.
|Mainurl=http://craphound.com
|Author=Cory Doctorow
|User_Status=Creator
|Tag=Literature
|License_short_name=CC BY-NC-SA
|Format=Text
|Country=United Kingdom
|Quote=Not only does making my books available for free increase the number of sales that I get, but I also came to understand it artistically as a Science Fiction writer that if I was making work that wasn't intended to be copied, then I was really making contemporary work.
|Quote_Attribution=[http://craphound.com Cory Doctorow]
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|Image_attribution=[http://flickr.com/photos/joi/2196901054/ Joi Ito]
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|importance=High
|quality=A-Class
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}}
== Overview ==
Cory Doctorow is a Science Fiction author with a vast amount of work under his name. Cory, as a very early adopter of Creative Commons, has been producing Creative Commons licensed works since 2003 with the publication of the first CC licensed novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Along with writing SciFi, Cory is one of the editors of Boing Boing, an award wining blog covering a wide range of topics from technological gadgets, to steampunk tricycles, to current information policy debates.

== License Usage ==
Cory Doctorow's literary works are released under Creative Commons Atrribution NonCommercial ShareAlike or Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives. His latest work, Little Brother, has spent 4 weeks on the NYTimes bestseller list and is released as BY-NC-SA.

== Motivations ==
As a very early adopter and promoter of Creative Commons licenses, Cory Doctorow's reasoning for using them for his works is well known in certain circles. For instance, in an interview with Greg Grossmeier, community development intern at Creative Commons, Cory gave his reasoning as it relates to the type of writing he does:
“Not only does making my books available for free increase the number of sales that I get, but I also came to understand it artistically as a Science Fiction writer that if I was making work that wasn't intended to be copied, then I was really making contemporary work.”

From that same interview Cory describes how he sees the relationship between the increasing role and power of copyright and the people who use those works:
“As the copyright wars deepened, I really started to understand the cost of imposing a 20th century exclusive rights style copyright on individual users of works in the 21st century would lead to a dramatic decrease in freedoms that are really important like free speech, free expression, even free of assembly and freedom of the press. All of these things would come under fire as a result of the copyright wars.”

Cory's support of the CC licenses also stems from his dislike of overly restrictive forms of protection on creative works. As expressed on his personal website's bio page, written in 2006, “I believe that we live in an era where anything that can be expressed as bits will be. I believe that bits exist to be copied. Therefore, I believe that any business-model that depends on your bits not being copied is just dumb, and that lawmakers who try to prop these up are like governments that sink fortunes into protecting people who insist on living on the sides of active volcanoes.”

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Case Studies/Cory Doctorow

2010-10-24T15:54:27Z

Tommyogp:

{{Case Study
|translations=Vi:Cory Doctorow,Fr:Cory Doctorow
|Description=Cory Doctorow is a writer, blogger, and futurist that has embraced the ideals of Creative Commons from the beginning.
|Mainurl=http://craphound.com
|Author=Cory Doctorow
|User_Status=Creator
|Tag=Literature
|License_short_name=CC BY-NC-SA
|Format=Text
|Country=United Kingdom
|Quote=Not only does making my books available for free increase the number of sales that I get, but I also came to understand it artistically as a Science Fiction writer that if I was making work that wasn't intended to be copied, then I was really making contemporary work.
|Quote_Attribution=[http://craphound.com Cory Doctorow]
|Image_Header=http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2018/2196901054_a9f86dbd12.jpg
|Image_attribution=[http://flickr.com/photos/joi/2196901054/ Joi Ito]
|Image_license=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
|importance=High
|quality=A-Class
|License=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
}}
== Overview ==
Cory Doctorow is a Science Fiction author with a vast amount of work under his name. Cory, as a very early adopter of Creative Commons, has been producing Creative Commons licensed works since 2003 with the publication of the first CC licensed novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Along with writing SciFi, Cory is one of the editors of Boing Boing, an award wining blog covering a wide range of topics from technological gadgets, to steampunk tricycles, to current information policy debates.

== License Usage ==
Cory Doctorow's literary works are released under Creative Commons Atrribution NonCommercial ShareAlike or Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives. His latest work, Little Brother, has spent 4 weeks on the NYTimes bestseller list and is released as BY-NC-SA.

== Motivations ==
As a very early adopter and promoter of Creative Commons licenses, Cory Doctorow's reasoning for using them for his works is well known in certain circles. For instance, in an interview with Greg Grossmeier, community development intern at Creative Commons, Cory gave his reasoning as it relates to the type of writing he does:
“Not only does making my books available for free increase the number of sales that I get, but I also came to understand it artistically as a Science Fiction writer that if I was making work that wasn't intended to be copied, then I was really making contemporary work.”

From that same interview Cory describes how he sees the relationship between the increasing role and power of copyright and the people who use those works:
“As the copyright wars deepened, I really started to understand the cost of imposing a 20th century exclusive rights style copyright on individual users of works in the 21st century would lead to a dramatic decrease in freedoms that are really important like free speech, free expression, even free of assembly and freedom of the press. All of these things would come under fire as a result of the copyright wars.”

Cory's support of the CC licenses also stems from his dislike of overly restrictive forms of protection on creative works. As expressed on his personal website's bio page, written in 2006, “I believe that we live in an era where anything that can be expressed as bits will be. I believe that bits exist to be copied. Therefore, I believe that any business-model that depends on your bits not being copied is just dumb, and that lawmakers who try to prop these up are like governments that sink fortunes into protecting people who insist on living on the sides of active volcanoes.”

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Case Studies/Cory Doctorow

2010-10-24T15:54:03Z

Tommyogp:

{{Case Study
|translations=Vi:Cory Doctorow
|Description=Cory Doctorow is a writer, blogger, and futurist that has embraced the ideals of Creative Commons from the beginning.
|Mainurl=http://craphound.com
|Author=Cory Doctorow
|User_Status=Creator
|Tag=Literature
|License_short_name=CC BY-NC-SA
|Format=Text
|Country=United Kingdom
|Quote=Not only does making my books available for free increase the number of sales that I get, but I also came to understand it artistically as a Science Fiction writer that if I was making work that wasn't intended to be copied, then I was really making contemporary work.
|Quote_Attribution=[http://craphound.com Cory Doctorow]
|Image_Header=http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2018/2196901054_a9f86dbd12.jpg
|Image_attribution=[http://flickr.com/photos/joi/2196901054/ Joi Ito]
|Image_license=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
|importance=High
|quality=A-Class
|License=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
}}
== Overview ==
Cory Doctorow is a Science Fiction author with a vast amount of work under his name. Cory, as a very early adopter of Creative Commons, has been producing Creative Commons licensed works since 2003 with the publication of the first CC licensed novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Along with writing SciFi, Cory is one of the editors of Boing Boing, an award wining blog covering a wide range of topics from technological gadgets, to steampunk tricycles, to current information policy debates.

== License Usage ==
Cory Doctorow's literary works are released under Creative Commons Atrribution NonCommercial ShareAlike or Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives. His latest work, Little Brother, has spent 4 weeks on the NYTimes bestseller list and is released as BY-NC-SA.

== Motivations ==
As a very early adopter and promoter of Creative Commons licenses, Cory Doctorow's reasoning for using them for his works is well known in certain circles. For instance, in an interview with Greg Grossmeier, community development intern at Creative Commons, Cory gave his reasoning as it relates to the type of writing he does:
“Not only does making my books available for free increase the number of sales that I get, but I also came to understand it artistically as a Science Fiction writer that if I was making work that wasn't intended to be copied, then I was really making contemporary work.”

From that same interview Cory describes how he sees the relationship between the increasing role and power of copyright and the people who use those works:
“As the copyright wars deepened, I really started to understand the cost of imposing a 20th century exclusive rights style copyright on individual users of works in the 21st century would lead to a dramatic decrease in freedoms that are really important like free speech, free expression, even free of assembly and freedom of the press. All of these things would come under fire as a result of the copyright wars.”

Cory's support of the CC licenses also stems from his dislike of overly restrictive forms of protection on creative works. As expressed on his personal website's bio page, written in 2006, “I believe that we live in an era where anything that can be expressed as bits will be. I believe that bits exist to be copied. Therefore, I believe that any business-model that depends on your bits not being copied is just dumb, and that lawmakers who try to prop these up are like governments that sink fortunes into protecting people who insist on living on the sides of active volcanoes.”

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Case Studies/Cory Doctorow

2010-10-24T15:53:45Z

Tommyogp:

{{Case Study
|Description=Cory Doctorow is a writer, blogger, and futurist that has embraced the ideals of Creative Commons from the beginning.
|Mainurl=http://craphound.com
|Author=Cory Doctorow
|User_Status=Creator
|Tag=Literature
|License_short_name=CC BY-NC-SA
|Format=Text
|Country=United Kingdom
|Quote=Not only does making my books available for free increase the number of sales that I get, but I also came to understand it artistically as a Science Fiction writer that if I was making work that wasn't intended to be copied, then I was really making contemporary work.
|Quote_Attribution=[http://craphound.com Cory Doctorow]
|Image_Header=http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2018/2196901054_a9f86dbd12.jpg
|Image_attribution=[http://flickr.com/photos/joi/2196901054/ Joi Ito]
|Image_license=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
|importance=High
|quality=A-Class
|License=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
}}
== Overview ==
Cory Doctorow is a Science Fiction author with a vast amount of work under his name. Cory, as a very early adopter of Creative Commons, has been producing Creative Commons licensed works since 2003 with the publication of the first CC licensed novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Along with writing SciFi, Cory is one of the editors of Boing Boing, an award wining blog covering a wide range of topics from technological gadgets, to steampunk tricycles, to current information policy debates.

== License Usage ==
Cory Doctorow's literary works are released under Creative Commons Atrribution NonCommercial ShareAlike or Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives. His latest work, Little Brother, has spent 4 weeks on the NYTimes bestseller list and is released as BY-NC-SA.

== Motivations ==
As a very early adopter and promoter of Creative Commons licenses, Cory Doctorow's reasoning for using them for his works is well known in certain circles. For instance, in an interview with Greg Grossmeier, community development intern at Creative Commons, Cory gave his reasoning as it relates to the type of writing he does:
“Not only does making my books available for free increase the number of sales that I get, but I also came to understand it artistically as a Science Fiction writer that if I was making work that wasn't intended to be copied, then I was really making contemporary work.”

From that same interview Cory describes how he sees the relationship between the increasing role and power of copyright and the people who use those works:
“As the copyright wars deepened, I really started to understand the cost of imposing a 20th century exclusive rights style copyright on individual users of works in the 21st century would lead to a dramatic decrease in freedoms that are really important like free speech, free expression, even free of assembly and freedom of the press. All of these things would come under fire as a result of the copyright wars.”

Cory's support of the CC licenses also stems from his dislike of overly restrictive forms of protection on creative works. As expressed on his personal website's bio page, written in 2006, “I believe that we live in an era where anything that can be expressed as bits will be. I believe that bits exist to be copied. Therefore, I believe that any business-model that depends on your bits not being copied is just dumb, and that lawmakers who try to prop these up are like governments that sink fortunes into protecting people who insist on living on the sides of active volcanoes.”

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Case Studies/Cory Doctorow

2010-10-24T15:52:35Z

Tommyogp:

{{Translations|
articles=Vi:Cory Doctorow
}}

{{Case Study
|Description=Cory Doctorow is a writer, blogger, and futurist that has embraced the ideals of Creative Commons from the beginning.
|Mainurl=http://craphound.com
|Author=Cory Doctorow
|User_Status=Creator
|Tag=Literature
|License_short_name=CC BY-NC-SA
|Format=Text
|Country=United Kingdom
|Quote=Not only does making my books available for free increase the number of sales that I get, but I also came to understand it artistically as a Science Fiction writer that if I was making work that wasn't intended to be copied, then I was really making contemporary work.
|Quote_Attribution=[http://craphound.com Cory Doctorow]
|Image_Header=http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2018/2196901054_a9f86dbd12.jpg
|Image_attribution=[http://flickr.com/photos/joi/2196901054/ Joi Ito]
|Image_license=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
|importance=High
|quality=A-Class
|License=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
}}
== Overview ==
Cory Doctorow is a Science Fiction author with a vast amount of work under his name. Cory, as a very early adopter of Creative Commons, has been producing Creative Commons licensed works since 2003 with the publication of the first CC licensed novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Along with writing SciFi, Cory is one of the editors of Boing Boing, an award wining blog covering a wide range of topics from technological gadgets, to steampunk tricycles, to current information policy debates.

== License Usage ==
Cory Doctorow's literary works are released under Creative Commons Atrribution NonCommercial ShareAlike or Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives. His latest work, Little Brother, has spent 4 weeks on the NYTimes bestseller list and is released as BY-NC-SA.

== Motivations ==
As a very early adopter and promoter of Creative Commons licenses, Cory Doctorow's reasoning for using them for his works is well known in certain circles. For instance, in an interview with Greg Grossmeier, community development intern at Creative Commons, Cory gave his reasoning as it relates to the type of writing he does:
“Not only does making my books available for free increase the number of sales that I get, but I also came to understand it artistically as a Science Fiction writer that if I was making work that wasn't intended to be copied, then I was really making contemporary work.”

From that same interview Cory describes how he sees the relationship between the increasing role and power of copyright and the people who use those works:
“As the copyright wars deepened, I really started to understand the cost of imposing a 20th century exclusive rights style copyright on individual users of works in the 21st century would lead to a dramatic decrease in freedoms that are really important like free speech, free expression, even free of assembly and freedom of the press. All of these things would come under fire as a result of the copyright wars.”

Cory's support of the CC licenses also stems from his dislike of overly restrictive forms of protection on creative works. As expressed on his personal website's bio page, written in 2006, “I believe that we live in an era where anything that can be expressed as bits will be. I believe that bits exist to be copied. Therefore, I believe that any business-model that depends on your bits not being copied is just dumb, and that lawmakers who try to prop these up are like governments that sink fortunes into protecting people who insist on living on the sides of active volcanoes.”

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Translating PO Files

2010-10-24T14:49:14Z

Tommyogp: /* Translating using poEdit */

[[Translate|Translations]] for Creative Commons software and web applications are stored in gettext message catalogs. Creative Commons uses [http://translate.creativecommons.org Pootle] to provide a web-based translation interface. '''Using Pootle is the preferred method for translating ccPublisher. Instructions for using Pootle can be found [[Translating with Pootle|here]].''' This page describes how to create translations using other tools for manipulating the message catalogs.

== Getting Started ==

To begin translating a Creative Commons application, you will need the PO Template (.pot) file(s). These are typically stored in Subversion in a <code>template</code> locale directory. If you have questions about where to find the templates for a specific project, email the [[Mailing Lists|cc-devel]] mailing list.

=== Translating using poEdit ===

[http://www.poedit.net/download.php poEdit] is an Open Source cross-platform gettext catalogs (.po files) editor. It is built with wxWidgets toolkit and can run on any platform supported by it. It aims to provide more convenient approach to editing catalogs than launching Notepad (or vi) and editing the file by hand. Official releases are available from the poEdit web site for Windows and Linux. A version for Mac OS X is available at http://www.poedit.net/download.php#osx. The poEdit team reports it is a beta release and the 1.3.6 version is known to be broken, but some translators have had success using it for ccPublisher.

Just use poEdit's '''File''' -> '''New catalog from POT file...''' function will easily doing so. It even can compile .po into .mo file in the same time you pressing '''Save'''.

== Submitting a Translation ==

Once you have completed or updated a translation and tested it, you can submit it by emailing the [[Mailing Lists|cc-devel]] mailing list.

== Updating Translations ==

Strings are sometimes added or removed from the application during development cycles. At those times it is necessary to update the translation (.po) files with the new strings and translations.

=== Using poEdit ===

If you are using [http://www.poedit.net/download.php poEdit], you can use the '''Update from POT file...''' option. Go to the '''Catalog''' menu and select '''Update from POT file...'''. Select the .pot file which cooresponds to the translation you have open (i.e. if you are updating ccpublisher.po, select ccpublisher.pot).

[[Image:Poedit_select_catalog_template.png|600px]]

poEdit will display the new strings it will add, as well as the obsolete strings it will remove.

[[Image:Poedit_approve_updates.png|600px]]

=== Using GNU gettext tools ===

The [http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/ GNU gettext] tools include a command-line tool called <code>msgmerge</code> which may be used to merge two catalogs together. For example, to use msgmerge for ccpublisher.po, you can use the following commands (Linux):

$ cd resources/locale/en_US
$ msgmerge ccpublisher.po ../ccpublisher.pot > new_ccpublisher.po

This will create a new file (<code>new_ccpublisher.po</code>) containing the merged translations. After examining it, rename it to the original file name (<code>ccpublisher.po</code>).

Translating PO Files

2010-10-24T14:44:56Z

Tommyogp: /* Using poEdit */

[[Translate|Translations]] for Creative Commons software and web applications are stored in gettext message catalogs. Creative Commons uses [http://translate.creativecommons.org Pootle] to provide a web-based translation interface. '''Using Pootle is the preferred method for translating ccPublisher. Instructions for using Pootle can be found [[Translating with Pootle|here]].''' This page describes how to create translations using other tools for manipulating the message catalogs.

== Getting Started ==

To begin translating a Creative Commons application, you will need the PO Template (.pot) file(s). These are typically stored in Subversion in a <code>template</code> locale directory. If you have questions about where to find the templates for a specific project, email the [[Mailing Lists|cc-devel]] mailing list.

=== Translating using poEdit ===

[http://www.poedit.net/ poEdit] is an Open Source cross-platform gettext catalogs (.po files) editor. It is built with wxWidgets toolkit and can run on any platform supported by it. It aims to provide more convenient approach to editing catalogs than launching Notepad (or vi) and editing the file by hand. Official releases are available from the poEdit web site for Windows and Linux. A version for Mac OS X is available at http://www.poedit.net/download.php#osx. The poEdit team reports it is a beta release and the 1.3.6 version is known to be broken, but some translators have had success using it for ccPublisher.

Just use poEdit's '''File''' -> '''New catalog from POT file...''' function will easily doing so. It even can compile .po into .mo file in the same time you pressing '''Save'''.

== Submitting a Translation ==

Once you have completed or updated a translation and tested it, you can submit it by emailing the [[Mailing Lists|cc-devel]] mailing list.

== Updating Translations ==

Strings are sometimes added or removed from the application during development cycles. At those times it is necessary to update the translation (.po) files with the new strings and translations.

=== Using poEdit ===

If you are using [http://www.poedit.net/download.php poEdit], you can use the '''Update from POT file...''' option. Go to the '''Catalog''' menu and select '''Update from POT file...'''. Select the .pot file which cooresponds to the translation you have open (i.e. if you are updating ccpublisher.po, select ccpublisher.pot).

[[Image:Poedit_select_catalog_template.png|600px]]

poEdit will display the new strings it will add, as well as the obsolete strings it will remove.

[[Image:Poedit_approve_updates.png|600px]]

=== Using GNU gettext tools ===

The [http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/ GNU gettext] tools include a command-line tool called <code>msgmerge</code> which may be used to merge two catalogs together. For example, to use msgmerge for ccpublisher.po, you can use the following commands (Linux):

$ cd resources/locale/en_US
$ msgmerge ccpublisher.po ../ccpublisher.pot > new_ccpublisher.po

This will create a new file (<code>new_ccpublisher.po</code>) containing the merged translations. After examining it, rename it to the original file name (<code>ccpublisher.po</code>).

Developers

2010-10-24T12:27:26Z

Tommyogp:

{{Translations|
articles=Pt:Programadores,Ru:Разработчикам,Vi:Phát Triển Viên
}}
__NOTOC__
<div style="font-size:125%; line-height:1.75em; margin-bottom:1.75em;"><strong>Welcome to the CC Developer Community!</strong> The CC Developer Community is the place to find all about the various software and technical projects that happen within Creative Commons, and the larger CC community. All of the projects developed at Creative Commons are open source software, and just like most open source projects, outside involvement is key to its success. Be sure to [[Special:Userlogin|create a wiki account]] or [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Special:OpenIDLogin login with OpenID] so you can add to this wiki and help it grow.
<br />
There are many ways of interacting with the CC Developer Community, pick your point of entry below:
</div>

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=== Integrate CC license data into applications ===
[[Integrate|Integrating CC license data]] into desktop or web-based applications provides users huge benefits: they get to decide how their work is licensed from the start.
* I want to do this for '''[[Desktop Integration|desktop applications]]'''
* I want to do this for '''[[Web Integration|web applications]]'''

=== Translate ===
There are many opportunities to help the Creative Commons community with translations. Check out the [[Translate]] page for an overview.

=== Join the Discussion ===
The Developer Community is more than the sum of software written, it is also the conversations that the community has; what is important, what to do next, how to improve the old.

* '''[[Mailing Lists|Mailing Lists]]'''
** [http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-devel cc-devel] is the primary developer mailing list.
* '''[[IRC]]'''
** #cc on the Freenode IRC network.
* '''[http://code.creativecommons.org/issues/ Issue Tracking]'''
** See what we're working on.

}}
{{PageColumn|
=== Participate in Developer Challenges ===
[[Developer Challenges|Creative Commons Developer Challenges]] are a great way of joining the community and producing software that others have already expressed interest in using!

==== Developer Challenges currently open (first 15): ====
{{#ask:
[[Category:Challenge]] [[Has Challenge Type::Developer]] [[Is Complete::false]]
| ?Related To
| limit=15
}}

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[[Category:Developer]]

Case Studies/Cory Doctorow

2010-10-23T18:09:08Z

Tommyogp:

Case Studies/Cory Doctorow

2010-10-23T18:05:55Z

Tommyogp:

{{Case Study
|translations=Vietnameses
|Description=Cory Doctorow is a writer, blogger, and futurist that has embraced the ideals of Creative Commons from the beginning.
|Mainurl=http://craphound.com
|Author=Cory Doctorow
|User_Status=Creator
|Tag=Literature
|License_short_name=CC BY-NC-SA
|Format=Text
|Country=United Kingdom
|Quote=Not only does making my books available for free increase the number of sales that I get, but I also came to understand it artistically as a Science Fiction writer that if I was making work that wasn't intended to be copied, then I was really making contemporary work.
|Quote_Attribution=[http://craphound.com Cory Doctorow]
|Image_Header=http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2018/2196901054_a9f86dbd12.jpg
|Image_attribution=[http://flickr.com/photos/joi/2196901054/ Joi Ito]
|Image_license=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
|importance=High
|quality=A-Class
|License=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
}}
== Overview ==
Cory Doctorow is a Science Fiction author with a vast amount of work under his name. Cory, as a very early adopter of Creative Commons, has been producing Creative Commons licensed works since 2003 with the publication of the first CC licensed novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Along with writing SciFi, Cory is one of the editors of Boing Boing, an award wining blog covering a wide range of topics from technological gadgets, to steampunk tricycles, to current information policy debates.

== License Usage ==
Cory Doctorow's literary works are released under Creative Commons Atrribution NonCommercial ShareAlike or Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives. His latest work, Little Brother, has spent 4 weeks on the NYTimes bestseller list and is released as BY-NC-SA.

== Motivations ==
As a very early adopter and promoter of Creative Commons licenses, Cory Doctorow's reasoning for using them for his works is well known in certain circles. For instance, in an interview with Greg Grossmeier, community development intern at Creative Commons, Cory gave his reasoning as it relates to the type of writing he does:
“Not only does making my books available for free increase the number of sales that I get, but I also came to understand it artistically as a Science Fiction writer that if I was making work that wasn't intended to be copied, then I was really making contemporary work.”

From that same interview Cory describes how he sees the relationship between the increasing role and power of copyright and the people who use those works:
“As the copyright wars deepened, I really started to understand the cost of imposing a 20th century exclusive rights style copyright on individual users of works in the 21st century would lead to a dramatic decrease in freedoms that are really important like free speech, free expression, even free of assembly and freedom of the press. All of these things would come under fire as a result of the copyright wars.”

Cory's support of the CC licenses also stems from his dislike of overly restrictive forms of protection on creative works. As expressed on his personal website's bio page, written in 2006, “I believe that we live in an era where anything that can be expressed as bits will be. I believe that bits exist to be copied. Therefore, I believe that any business-model that depends on your bits not being copied is just dumb, and that lawmakers who try to prop these up are like governments that sink fortunes into protecting people who insist on living on the sides of active volcanoes.”

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Case Studies/Cory Doctorow

2010-10-23T18:05:11Z

Tommyogp:

{{Case Study
|translations=Cory Doctorow
|Description=Cory Doctorow is a writer, blogger, and futurist that has embraced the ideals of Creative Commons from the beginning.
|Mainurl=http://craphound.com
|Author=Cory Doctorow
|User_Status=Creator
|Tag=Literature
|License_short_name=CC BY-NC-SA
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== Overview ==
Cory Doctorow is a Science Fiction author with a vast amount of work under his name. Cory, as a very early adopter of Creative Commons, has been producing Creative Commons licensed works since 2003 with the publication of the first CC licensed novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Along with writing SciFi, Cory is one of the editors of Boing Boing, an award wining blog covering a wide range of topics from technological gadgets, to steampunk tricycles, to current information policy debates.

== License Usage ==
Cory Doctorow's literary works are released under Creative Commons Atrribution NonCommercial ShareAlike or Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives. His latest work, Little Brother, has spent 4 weeks on the NYTimes bestseller list and is released as BY-NC-SA.

== Motivations ==
As a very early adopter and promoter of Creative Commons licenses, Cory Doctorow's reasoning for using them for his works is well known in certain circles. For instance, in an interview with Greg Grossmeier, community development intern at Creative Commons, Cory gave his reasoning as it relates to the type of writing he does:
“Not only does making my books available for free increase the number of sales that I get, but I also came to understand it artistically as a Science Fiction writer that if I was making work that wasn't intended to be copied, then I was really making contemporary work.”

From that same interview Cory describes how he sees the relationship between the increasing role and power of copyright and the people who use those works:
“As the copyright wars deepened, I really started to understand the cost of imposing a 20th century exclusive rights style copyright on individual users of works in the 21st century would lead to a dramatic decrease in freedoms that are really important like free speech, free expression, even free of assembly and freedom of the press. All of these things would come under fire as a result of the copyright wars.”

Cory's support of the CC licenses also stems from his dislike of overly restrictive forms of protection on creative works. As expressed on his personal website's bio page, written in 2006, “I believe that we live in an era where anything that can be expressed as bits will be. I believe that bits exist to be copied. Therefore, I believe that any business-model that depends on your bits not being copied is just dumb, and that lawmakers who try to prop these up are like governments that sink fortunes into protecting people who insist on living on the sides of active volcanoes.”

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