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This particular story sadly illustrates the limits of non-commercial licenses or any restrictive open license. If you can't enforce their constraints, they are unfortunately worth squat, no matter how well-intentioned you were. #FOSS #OpenLicenses #CreativeCommons

Eugenia Bahit 🏳️‍🌈 #AMIA26Años ✡️

2020-10-27 22:54:50


Hi @JeffBezos
My name is Eugenia Bahit. I am the autistic woman who wrote this book:
amazon.co.uk/Aprender-progr…
I am sad, stressed and cry because @amazon is selling it without my permission. It has a non-commercial license. Please, stop selling my book. I don't want to keep crying
#foss #creativecommons #OpenLicenses @amazon@twitter.com @JeffBezos
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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The problem is in the copyright laws that make wealthy organizations solely wield the intellectual property rights. This allows some non-profits to defend some individuals' rights, but on the whole it mostly benefits for-profit businesses.
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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Local direct cooperation (wink wink @Spencer ) but otherwise the deck is heavily stacked in their favor indeed. What I meant is that there is no inherent problem with the mostly free licenses, rather with intellectual property (even even property at all) in the first place.
@Spencer
Lee Rothstein
Lee Rothstein  
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@Hypolite PetovanThis is true of patents, as well.
@Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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@Lee Rothstein Absolutely, they are sold as a way for inventors-in-their-garage to make money out of their creation but they end up being used to extort money for medium-sized companies or snuff out competition by leading players.
@Lee Rothstein
Lee Rothstein
Lee Rothstein  
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@Hypolite Petovan: Best example I know of patent extortion was IBM's use of Token Ring.
@Hypolite Petovan
hackbyte (pluspora DEFUNCT!) moved to friendica.utzer.de
hackbyte (pluspora DEFUNCT!) moved to friendica.utzer.de  
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Mhmhmm ... but for patents there exists "Prior Art" ...

And with the internet, we all are easily able to create and publish prior art works..... mhmm
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
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@hackbyte And then you need money to hire a lawyer to make a case, and you're back to square one.
@hackbyte (pluspora DEFUNCT!) moved to friendica.utzer.de
hackbyte (pluspora DEFUNCT!) moved to friendica.utzer.de
hackbyte (pluspora DEFUNCT!) moved to friendica.utzer.de  
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@Hypolite Petovan Well ... not really, you can just wait until some patent owner tries to sue you for your prior art work..
@Hypolite Petovan
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