{"id":49,"date":"2009-02-11T21:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/city-of-masks\/2009\/02\/11\/city-of-masks-pirated\/"},"modified":"2009-02-11T21:41:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T21:41:00","slug":"city-of-masks-pirated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/city-of-masks\/2009\/02\/11\/city-of-masks-pirated\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Masks "pirated""},"content":{"rendered":"

I just discovered (via a Google search) that the City of Masks ebook has been uploaded to Scribd<\/a>, under an Attribution-Noncommercial Creative Commons license.<\/p>\n

Now, in fact I have never released the ebook under any CC license. I have released the audio version (the podcast) as CC-Attribution-Noncommercial, but not the ebook. So I’m within my rights to complain to Scribd that this violates my copyright, and have it taken down.<\/p>\n

I’m not going to do that, not right now, anyway, because I don’t see that it’s doing me any great harm (and it may do some good – someone may read it, like it, and seek out my other work here). I suppose for legal reasons I should say that I’m not giving up my legal rights by deciding not to exercise them at this time and on this occasion, blah blah.<\/p>\n

City of Masks is in my copyright. I choose to distribute the ebook, from my own website, and not charge any money; I can do that because I own the copyright. I would prefer the file not to be uploaded elsewhere, because if it is on my own site I can control it. (Recently, for example, I put in a note at the end directing people here. I can’t do that to the copy on Scribd.)<\/p>\n

Technical ways to effectively prevent anyone at all with an internet connection taking the file and doing anything at all to it do not exist and never will, and I won’t make life more annoying for honest people by implementing the ineffective ones that do exist. As I remarked above, at the moment I am also choosing not to pursue my legal ways to prevent this; it’s just not worth it to me and I don’t want to be the Copyright Ogre.<\/p>\n

However, if you’re thinking of uploading the file somewhere yourself, I have two words for you: Please don’t.<\/p>\n

Link to the copy on my site instead. Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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