Venerable author Cory Doctorow and I engaged in a friendly email debate this Summer, with the intention of sharing it to illuminate some issues confronting Free Culture and Creative Commons licenses. It’s quite long, but hits on many topics of interest to Techdirt readers.

Read Paley & Doctorow argue over Non-Commercial licenses

Cory releases his books under -NC (“Non-Commercial”) licenses. The -NC restriction is Creative Commons’ most popular, but has a lot of problems, including incompatibility with Free licenses. As an alternative, I recommend the Creator Endorsed Mark used with a copyleft (such as Share-Alike) license. The sparks fly from there! (Actually it’s all very civil, but if I say sparks fly maybe more people will read it.)

I’m curious to read how the Techdirt community weighs on on these issues, so please comment.

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