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“If I’m to be a fool, let me be a generous one.” – me, just now

My current license on most of my works is Creative Commons’s “CC BY-NC.” That’s their “You can share and spread this material, remix and transform it, but you must attribute the original work to me and you cannot use it for commercial purposes.”

Once my items leave my personal copyright zone, they will be under a “CC BY-SA” license. That basically means “you can share, spread, remix, transform my work, and you can even do it for commercial purposes.”

As of today, March 26, 2014, my personal copyright is going to be ten years. This will not apply retroactively to works, but rather all works created by me now have a copyright-reboot date of today. This means that this comic will become available under the second CC license on March 26, 2024. If a work was created by me in 1992, it will still only become available in 2024. The details are a bit more complex, but they’re not particularly relevant yet.

SUMMATION: On March 26, 2024, everything I’ve created on/before today—for better or worse—belongs to everybody.

This comic and my copyright choice are dedicated to the memory of my dear friend Michael Hart.

Love,

benjamin

Originally published at benchilada. You can comment here or there.

Click the pics to make them bigger.

Let’s do this.

Copyright Benchilada Style Page 1 completeCopyright Benchilada Style Page 2 completeCopyright Benchilada Style Page 3 complete

“If I’m to be a fool, let me be a generous one.” – me, just now

My current license on most of my works is Creative Commons’s “CC BY-NC.” That’s their “You can share and spread this material, remix and transform it, but you must attribute the original work to me and you cannot use it for commercial purposes.”

Once my items leave my personal copyright zone, they will be under a “CC BY-SA” license. That basically means “you can share, spread, remix, transform my work, and you can even do it for commercial purposes.”

As of today, March 26, 2014, my personal copyright is going to be ten years. This will not apply retroactively to works, but rather all works created by me now have a copyright-reboot date of today. This means that this comic will become available under the second CC license on March 26, 2024. If a work was created by me in 1992, it will still only become available in 2024. The details are a bit more complex, but they’re not particularly relevant yet.

SUMMATION: On March 26, 2024, everything I’ve created on/before today—for better or worse—belongs to everybody.

This comic and my copyright choice are dedicated to the memory of my dear friend Michael Hart.

Love,

benjamin

Originally published at benchilada. You can comment here or there.

Click the pics to make them bigger.

Let’s do this.

Copyright Benchilada Style Page 1 completeCopyright Benchilada Style Page 2 completeCopyright Benchilada Style Page 3 complete

“If I’m to be a fool, let me be a generous one.” – me, just now

My current license on most of my works is Creative Commons’s “CC BY-NC.” That’s their “You can share and spread this material, remix and transform it, but you must attribute the original work to me and you cannot use it for commercial purposes.”

Once my items leave my personal copyright zone, they will be under a “CC BY-SA” license. That basically means “you can share, spread, remix, transform my work, and you can even do it for commercial purposes.”

As of today, March 26, 2014, my personal copyright is going to be ten years. This will not apply retroactively to works, but rather all works created by me now have a copyright-reboot date of today. This means that this comic will become available under the second CC license on March 26, 2024. If a work was created by me in 1992, it will still only become available in 2024. The details are a bit more complex, but they’re not particularly relevant yet.

SUMMATION: On March 26, 2024, everything I’ve created on/before today—for better or worse—belongs to everybody.

This comic and my copyright choice are dedicated to the memory of my dear friend Michael Hart.

Love,

benjamin


What's that?

You heard that [livejournal.com profile] fairyarmadillo and I are running a massive book sale for the Estate of Michael Hart?

CLICK THE PIC BELOW FOR MOAR INFO, SUCKAS.


It's gonna be awesome.


BANG-AT-BANG tattoos

Bit of a story here.

I'm one of the executors of the estate of Michael Hart. He was the e-book guy, the founder of Project Gutenberg, and one of my best friends. That having been said, he did make me an executor, so he must have held a little malice in his heart towards me. :P

He died in September 2011, but his estate is still slowly being processed, so Nadja and I are really devoting a LOT of our lives to this endeavor right now. As such, my lovely [livejournal.com profile] fairyarmadillo had the idea that we should memorialize both Michael and this part of our lives with a little something he used to do.

Michael liked e-mail. He sent lots of e-mails. No, really, LOTS of e-mails. Thankfully, he knew that none of us could possibly read everything he wrote, so when there was something of grave import or in need of immediate reply, the subject line started with what he called BANG-AT-BANG, represented as !@!.

Michael was important. This estate is important. The things made and done with our arms are important. My relationship with Nadja Robot is supremely important.

Both of our wrists match now. We have <3 on the left and !@! on the right.

When we hold hands, one will be against the other.

Love is important.

b

Michael S Hart grave marker has a QR code on the back

[livejournal.com profile] fairyarmadillo and I visited our friend Michael's gravestone for the first time yesterday. The QR code Nadja recommended works perfectly, even from this photo.

Inventor of the e-book, founder of Project Gutenberg, still digital from the grave. :)

b

This is Michael Hart.


He created the e-book.
He made them free.
He founded Project Gutenberg.

He died yesterday.

He was my very dear friend and I am going to miss him so very, very much.

Please, take a moment and go download an e-book from Gutenberg.

Love,

b

PS - Tell your friends to do the same.

The Outlaw Michael Hart

As a friend of Project Gutenberg founder Michael Hart, and an occasional volunteer for the fabulous thing, I just had to share this wonderful thing over at UserFriendly



b
Been too busy to write lately. Somebody remind me to do so tomorrow.
In the mean time, here are a metric ass-ton of camera phone shots I've taken.

Because it's true:



And more terribly fun shots behind THIS CUT RIGHT HERE!!!... )

Right, off to edit HINADORI GIRL, v.2...and maybe write...

benjamin
Current Music: "Domino Dancing" - Pet Shop Boys
Last Book I Read a Page of: "Swamp Thing Book 6: Earth to Earth" -- Moore, Veitch, Tottleben
Last Movie: CLOSER (2004, Drama/Romance, USA, Mike Nichols)
Next Movie: PISCES (2000, Romance, Korea, "Mulgogijari" is the real title)

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