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6. The 4 paragraph limit is due to copyright and fair use. See the CC copyright at the top.
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 09:07 PM
Dec 16
This work – excluding any serialized fiction – is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. That means you can use it any way you like, including commercially, provided that you attribute it to me, Cory Doctorow, and include a link to pluralistic.net.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/


It's like open source software. We are so used to copyright trolls (and I ran into one, even with the 4 paragraph "fair use" rule here) that we can't grasp the free exchange of ideas and software.

Enjoy the article. It's entirely legal and the author's intent that people share it as a whole.

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