The digital licensing scheme that exists today is fucked. But IA frankly has always argued for the old maximalist "information wants to be free" scheme, and there push here is to replace a fucked system with a system that's fucked in a different way.
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Like, look, I personally don't think CDL in and of itself is all that big a deal, although I also don't make any money from royalties on anything so I have no skin in the game If we were only having a debate over CDL and where the boundaries of fair use should be, fine
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The thing is the copyright hawks are in this defensive posture because they worry that CDL is just a wedge issue to push the agenda of "erode copyright as a concept until it collapses and we have a free culture economy and authors get paid in tips"
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I'd be a lot more sympathetic to the ebook lending licensing if I thought the extra money they charged were going straight to authors. and I'm a bit irritated at framing IA as "refusing to pay authors minuscule royalties" as if that was ever on the table
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