The joy of the public domain
peter.suber's bookmarks 2015-02-19
Summary:
"When Doc Searls and I published our New Clues, we put it into the public domain. Even two months later, it feels good. In fact, seeing it reprinted in its entirety on someone else’s site fills me with an irrational exuberance....
In practical terms, putting New Clues into the public domain [here’s how] really doesn’t do much that CC BY doesn’t do....
So why does putting it into the public domain make me happier? I get as close to smiling as my stony visage permits when I see a site that’s copied and pasted the whole thing. It makes it feel that what Doc and I wrote was really about what it says and less about what the writing says about Doc and me. The focus is where it should be."