How I got a CC license for my book — 11/8 at CC Salon
Come out this Wednesday to hear me talk about how I got a Creative Commons attribution-noncommercial-nodervis license for my book Pretend We’re Dead. I’m part of the excellent lineup at this week’s Creative Commons Salon, a monthly gathering for people interested in liberating culture from the clutches of Big Content. I’ll discuss the rocky road to convincing your publisher that a CC license is a great idea.
The night will also include presentations from Flickr and the Homebrew Mobile Phone Club, as well as music from the Kleptones. I’ve been wanting to meet the folks from the Homebrew Mobile Club for ages, so I’m psyched to be on the same program with them!
The event is from 6-9 PM at the Shine bar, located in the leetest locale ever: 1337 Mission St., San Francisco.
November 8th, 2006 at 4:17 pm
I agree.
November 9th, 2006 at 10:05 am
This is my favorite piece of comment spam ever.
November 11th, 2006 at 11:23 am
Hey Annalee, maybe you can share your experience here as well? Would be interesting to read how people approach this …
I went through same thing two years ago with a German publisher – but after my book was already published. First I thought I could renegotiate my contract to get the online rights back, but they didn’t like that at all.
Finally they came up with an interesting solution: Instead of giving me the rights back to allow CC licensing, they decided to license it themselves as BY-NC-ND.
November 11th, 2006 at 4:25 pm
That’s interesting. My sense is that it’s rare to have a chance to renegotiate your rights after signing them away in a contract. It’s best to sign a contract you’re willing to live with from the start. I was lucky that Duke UP was willing to consider a CC license, and that they took the time to think it over carefully. We did do some negotiations — for example, we defined “noncommercial” in the copyright language that’s included in the book so that it would be clear to everyone that “noncommercial” meant that nobody could sell copies for money, even if they were a nonprofit org.