Comments on: iCommons 07: Best of quotes http://www.commonspage.net/2007/icommons-07-best-of-quotes/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:59:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Meike http://www.commonspage.net/2007/icommons-07-best-of-quotes/#comment-5674 Meike Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:00:27 +0000 http://www.commonspage.net/2007/icommons-07-best-of-quotes/#comment-5674 Stepehn Lee wrote an email and wants to clarify things: <blockquote>I am not sure how it was said in our talk but we do not believe that "piracy is what we are all about". We believe that FREE distribution is a good thing. CC helped Star Wreck to become very popular though helping people understand that by sharing our film with others they were NOT pirates. Now that popular content is valuable. Piracy is still wrong. Piracy in the context of Star Wreck means someone making money from our film without permission. Free distribution is not piracy.</blockquote> Voluntarily free sharing and illegal sharing is mixed up too often, so here is the correction. Stepehn Lee wrote an email and wants to clarify things:

I am not sure how it was said in our talk but we do not believe that “piracy is what we are all about”. We believe that FREE distribution is a good thing. CC helped Star Wreck to become very popular though helping people understand that by sharing our film with others they were NOT pirates. Now that popular content is valuable. Piracy is still wrong. Piracy in the context of Star Wreck means someone making money from our film without permission. Free distribution is not piracy.

Voluntarily free sharing and illegal sharing is mixed up too often, so here is the correction.

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