Hunter Davis

40 points

Seattle, WA

I write books, release software, hack on hardware, ponder ideas and generally have a good time.

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Remixing open source games with Creative Commons content

One of the great things about open source is that you're free to modify and redistribute it in whichever way you like. This is real creative freedom that I support. All of my…

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huntergdavis

2 Jan 2015

Remixing open source games with Creative Commons content

Thanks Joshua,

I just read the incredibly disheartening news that there will be zero copyrighted books coming into the public domain this January in the US. Such a waste of creativity, and as far as I'm concerned terribly shortsighted. Long time readers of my blog will recall that sales of my apps increased when I released their source code and graphics/music assets, and I have no plans to release any future works that are not open source.

Copyright law reminds me very much of "The Dead Past", a short story by Asimov. In it, we have this one facet of our culture that is strictly controlled by the government but is becoming ever more difficult to enforce due to our ever-improving technological infrastructure. For me, it's a very compelling call to abolish copyright. How ironic then, that though it was written for a magazine 50 years ago won't enter the public domain until 2051!