(cc) Publish & be Damned!!

Mia Garlick, July 6th, 2005

For all aspiring authors out there, a new self-publishing service ‘Publish & be Damned’ now includes the option for authors to publish their books under a Creative Commons license. At the site, writers can design, publish and sell their own hard copy books – either at their own personal selling page on the site or through more traditional book trade arrangements with wholesale distributors and Amazon. The online ‘Publish & be Damned’ bookstore is currently featuring the author James Morris and his new book ‘The Escapist’ – which has been published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license. Adapt away!!

Make a monkey movie

Mike Linksvayer, July 5th, 2005

Free software hacker and entrepreneur Nat Friedman staged a reenactment of the famous Scopes “Monkey” Trial and published the script under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License.

Stage your own reenactment/BBQ, make it into a film, make a cartoon based on the script with Darrow and Bryan as monkeys debating whether it is ok to teach that monkeys descended from mostly hairless apes…