Just Because It Has a License

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It’s rather chilling, it was in fact posted over here!

Cory Doctorow on "Copyleft" Trolls

This makes for some dark reading… It seems that for using Creative Commons 2.0 licenses the hole these trolls crawl through is that any non compliance of the terms of the license (meaning not attributing as specified) negates the license. Am I is reading this? Here’s a supreme irony: the Creative Commons licenses were invented to enable a culture of legally safe sharing, spurred by the legal terror campaign waged by the entertainment industry, led by a literal criminal predator who is now i…