MDERPELDING | 2007-02-10
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My stuff comes from Your stuff.
I would like permission to use your
intellectual property.
Anything I say is my responsibility.
But...
I learned from you.
So, if a release is needed,
you have got my e_mail address:
or...
Thank you.
Comment by mderpelding
ME:
I have to be careful what I say here for legal reasons. You don't have to worry about getting permission to use my stuff, even though it's copyrighted. I don't mind the COMMUNISTS using it if they don't cut and paste or change it. But I'll use their asses off if they quote me out of context for their own purposes or to damage me or for some other reason which from my point of view does me damage.
So don't worry about it. If you are going to use huge slices of my stuff FOR OUR PURPOSES, which I sincerely hope you will, you do so not only with my permission, but with my gratitude. My problem is that this is done too little, not too much.
No, it only bothers me that any comrade would HESITATE to use my stuff. Even if you screw up horribly with it, the worst that can happen in a real world court room is that you would have to apologize. Our enemies use the legal system as a weapon against us. If I had their resources, I would do the same thing to them, but not to prevent them from having free speech, which is the way they use it against us. They need that, because they have no case. We only need to be allowed ot present ours.
So you don't have to ask my permission for any or all of my material if you are honestly on our side. Only the copyright holder can make trouble, since this is civil, not criminal, law. And the only way anybody on either side will get me into court for any real damages is if they really, openly, honestly use what I say against me or mine. Believe me, you cannot do that without meaning to.
I wish I could give blanket permission, but, in any serious sense, anybody who is not a dedicated enemy of me and mine has it.