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Cory Doctorow on Nostr: My goodness, this is a terrible idea. So if I license your book to make a movie, and ...

My goodness, this is a terrible idea.

So if I license your book to make a movie, and spend ten years of my life making it, and then release it, you can make me destroy it?

We'd replace the system whereby any musician is allowed to record any song by paying a fixed fee with one where you have to track down and license every composition?

We'd kill the ability of musicians to perform live covers by paying a blanket license?

Authors could delete your ebooks from your Kindle?