Ben’s Photo of Me in a Robot Costume Shows Up as a Twitter Ad for Ruxit
I learned today from Justin S that an old photograph that Ben took of me in my “Free Robot Hugs” costume showed up in his Twitter timeline!
I learned today from Justin S that an old photograph that Ben took of me in my “Free Robot Hugs” costume showed up in his Twitter timeline!
Honestly? This is a pretty scary thing for me to do. I’m incredibly fond of these poems, and there’s still a part of me that wants to be protective of them, that makes me want to guard them from other people. But the idea I’m moving towards is that these poems are not valuable because of their scarcity. De-coupling this notion from my brain is a difficult and frightening thing to do… but it feels like the right thing, the right way to go. Even if it freaks me out a little.
Recently, I’ve been reading some stories by Cory Doctorow, and started looking a bit more at his thoughts on copyright. Thanks to him and BoingBoing, I was introduced to the Creative Commons licenses – a way to better define just how you would like your work shared. I like Cory’s take on why he chooses to give away his books…