Comments on: DMCA and Sci-Fi http://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/09/23/dmca-and-sci-fi/ Linux, politics, and other interesting things Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:45:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Don Marti http://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/09/23/dmca-and-sci-fi/comment-page-1/#comment-4025 Don Marti Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:41:26 +0000 http://etbe.coker.com.au/2007/09/23/dmca-and-sci-fi/#comment-4025 So if you do put a work under Creative Commons, why not just generate a statement saying "I declare under penalty of perjury that the file whose SHA1 hash is 5f3e5... is under the CC-(whatever) license" -- you could use a microformat for this -- and PGP-sign it? Then let the web sites have copies, and if someone tries to abuse the DMCA, and your PGP key has enough Whuffie that they have a pretty good idea you're a real person, then they'll know it. Or--hey kids, business model--as an author, you could allow putback-o-matic.com to generate a DMCA putback for you. Web sites that do a takedown would send the hashes of the files taken down to putback-o-matic.com, and putback-o-matic.com sends out the DMCA putback letter for you. If the takedown was an example of egregious DMCA abuse (which it doesn't look like the SFWA case was) then putback-o-matic.com sues the sender of the original takedown and splits the money with you. So if you do put a work under Creative Commons, why not just generate a statement saying “I declare under penalty of perjury that the file whose SHA1 hash is 5f3e5… is under the CC-(whatever) license” — you could use a microformat for this — and PGP-sign it? Then let the web sites have copies, and if someone tries to abuse the DMCA, and your PGP key has enough Whuffie that they have a pretty good idea you’re a real person, then they’ll know it.

Or–hey kids, business model–as an author, you could allow putback-o-matic.com to generate a DMCA putback for you. Web sites that do a takedown would send the hashes of the files taken down to putback-o-matic.com, and putback-o-matic.com sends out the DMCA putback letter for you. If the takedown was an example of egregious DMCA abuse (which it doesn’t look like the SFWA case was) then putback-o-matic.com sues the sender of the original takedown and splits the money with you.

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