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A Free Culture Acorn Sprouts

I keep half an eye on references to this site by using feeds from Google News and Blog Search to catch links to here or mentions of the site (or me).

A lot of times the feeds turn up some crummy splog scraping my content. A lot of people get up in arms about this, but so far with the sites I’ve seen, I really don’t care. Whether they properly attribute the work or link or not; big deal. They’ve just been no-name sites. If some really popular site used my work without attribution (or with misattribution), that might bother me more. We’ll see if and when it happens.

I’m just not a fan of copyright or the idea that people can own published digital bits. My use of a …

Science Fiction Short Story: ‘Picnic’

Finally, the big publication event. I present to you: free culture, made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license, which I think is the best CC license.

Related background/promotional posts:

Part 1: Free Culture?
Part 2: Free Culture: An “Inside the Slush Pile” Exclusive!
Elsewhere: Now available at manybooks.net in a variety of formats!

Remember, this is all for fun (I hope), and: “If you don’t expect too much from me, you might not be let down.” I hope you enjoy the story.

Thanks to Gary for drawing the pictures on short notice and agreeing to release them under the same Creative Commons license as the story.

by Scott Carpenter…