Right now it looks like I can get at least 10,000 minibooks printed, thanks to a printer/supporter offering print services at cost, along with everyone's generous contributions. The books will be perfect-bound, too! A bumper crop of minibooks for everyone.
The museum has no interest or desire in getting sued by an artist or someone else that might stake claims/rights to a piece of art or the exhibition of it.
All of which is a non-issue with a work under an explicit CC-BY-SA license.
Written or oral, it's a "contract" if you plan to get lawyers and courts to enforce it. Otherwise it's an "agreement". I'm all for agreements, but I have no intention to sue or legally threaten anyone if they don't live up to their end.
Unless there's a ton of money involved. For huge deals, the hassle of a contract might be worth it. But not for most gigs.
you EXPRESSLY state these works aren't meant for "commercial" distribution
I expressly encourage commercial use. Over and over. This is Creative Commons branding problem in action, unfortunately. Please read the linked article to see how much trouble CC's "non-commercial" brand messages causes pro-commerce me - you're not the only one who thinks all CC licenses have the "non-commercial" (and therefore not Free) restriction.
Begging actually is an OK business model for some. As money accumulates in the hands of the very wealthy few, they need to offload some of it - there are only so many yachts and mansions and petite lap giraffes even the greediest oligarch can maintain interest in. So some of it goes to their favorite "beggars" - charities, NGOs, nonprofits, and artists. Begging may not be a viable business model for news organizations, but it works for many other "content providers" like opera companies and rarified fine artists.
On another level, people enjoy supporting artists and projects they like, even ordinary people without much money. Giving money to cool projects is a way to participate in them, be connected to them, be a part of them, and it feels good for everyone. That's why crowdfunding works. It doesn't work for everything, of course; but no business model works for everything.
It puts the books up under a Creative Commons license as well
I respectfully request you please specify which license when talking about Creative Commons. It could be Free or un-Free; although you wrote it allows derivative works, it could still restrict "commercial" use. Because their most popular licenses are their least Free, when people just say "Creative Commons" instead of which license, it adds to the CC branding confusion, which we've talked about here.
and of course they'll get the print advertising revenue whether people read the print version or just throw it directly into the recycling bin. It makes sense for them to send more print copies into peoples' homes, for the print circulation numbers.
Mike, I haven't been following comments on all your posts lately (get me out of the spam filter!) but I assumed you already thought this. This is exactly the NYT's business plan; someone who works for the NYT told me this himself last week. They get by far the most advertising $$ for print ads, so their incentive is to sell as many print subscriptions as possible. That's it; that's all they want. More print subscriptions, so they can get more print ad revenue.
The phalanxes of lawyers in gatekeeper systems have really hindered the Free distribution of Sita Sings the Blues, too. It's like "Free" is some pathogen lawyers can't digest. That, in fact, is the ONLY drawback an artists face in freeing their work: other parties' lawyers not knowing how to deal with it.
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Thanks!
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All of which is a non-issue with a work under an explicit CC-BY-SA license.
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Re: contract?
Unless there's a ton of money involved. For huge deals, the hassle of a contract might be worth it. But not for most gigs.
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Suggestion perhaps for a future post on the methods you use with the free distribution to get paid.
Try here.
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I expressly encourage commercial use. Over and over. This is Creative Commons branding problem in action, unfortunately. Please read the linked article to see how much trouble CC's "non-commercial" brand messages causes pro-commerce me - you're not the only one who thinks all CC licenses have the "non-commercial" (and therefore not Free) restriction.
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begging to differ
On another level, people enjoy supporting artists and projects they like, even ordinary people without much money. Giving money to cool projects is a way to participate in them, be connected to them, be a part of them, and it feels good for everyone. That's why crowdfunding works. It doesn't work for everything, of course; but no business model works for everything.
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It's great!
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Creative Commons Branding Confusion
I respectfully request you please specify which license when talking about Creative Commons. It could be Free or un-Free; although you wrote it allows derivative works, it could still restrict "commercial" use. Because their most popular licenses are their least Free, when people just say "Creative Commons" instead of which license, it adds to the CC branding confusion, which we've talked about here.
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and...
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Exactly
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I can relate
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I want to hear "but but piracy"
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Indian politics as usual
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moron in a hurry
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France
On the bright side, that's giving rise to one of the most vibrant Free Culture movements in the Western world, too.
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