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So maybe Willingham should create his own bespoke license for *Fables*. That may be what he has to do, in fact. But boy is that a fraught business. Remember the army of top lawyers who created the CC licenses? They missed a crucial bug in the first three versions, and billions of works have been licensed under those earlier versions. This has enabled a mob of crooked #CopyleftTrolls (like @PixsyHQ) to prey on the unwary, raking in a fortune:

https://doctorow.medium.com/a-bug-in-early-creative-commons-licenses-has-enabled-a-new-breed-of-superpredator-5f6360713299

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Cory Doctorow 2y ago

Making a bug-free license is *hard*. A failure on Willingham's part to correctly enumerate or convey the limitations of such a license - to list which parts of *Fables* DC might sue you for using - could result in downstream users having their hard work censored out of existence by legal threats.

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Cory Doctorow 2y ago

Indeed, that's the *best case* scenario - defects in a license could result in downstream users, their collaborators, investors, and distributors being sued for millions of dollars, costing them everything they have, up to and including their homes.

Which isn't to say that this is dead on arrival - far from it! Just that there is work to be done.

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