They want to be able to talk to potential foreign publishers about how this stuff works, to give me time to talk with them, to ease them into the idea, and to have the kind of extended conversation that helped me lead Tor into their decision all those years ago.Īnd I agreed.
My foreign rights are sold by a subcontractor of my representative to a representative of a press I’ve often never heard of, who then has to explain my publishing philosophy to people I’ve never met, using a language I don’t speak.ĭanny and Heather have asked - not demanded, asked! - that I consider publishing books under a NoDerivs license, so that I can consult with them before I authorize translations of my books. That was me sitting down and making the case to editors I’ve known for years (my editor at Tor, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, has known me since I was 17). The point is that this is nothing like my initial Creative Commons discussion with Tor. They attend large book fairs in cities like Frankfurt and Bologna in order to sell the foreign rights to my books, often negotiating with one of a few English-speakers at a foreign press, who then goes back and justifies her or his decisions to the rest of the company. They subcontract for my agent Russell Galen, another inestimable personage without whom I would not have attained anything like the dizzy heights that I enjoy today. My foreign rights agents are the inestimable Danny and Heather Baror, and collectively they have sold my books into literally dozens of countries and languages, helping to bring my work to places I couldn’t have dreamed of reaching on my own. This ground-breaking step was only possible because I was able to have intense, personal discussions with my publisher.
They were incredibly forward-looking and gave me permission to release the first-ever novel licensed under CC - my debut novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. When I first started publishing under Creative Commons licenses, I had to carefully explain this to my editor and publisher at Tor Books. Keen observers will have already noticed that this book is licensed “NoDerivs” - that is, you can’t make remixes without permissionĪ word of explanation for this shift is in order. If you’d like to make a remix, please get in touch with us.Ĭory’s previous books have been released under a slightly different Creative Commons license, one that allowed for derivative works (that is, new creative works based on this one). These downloads are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivs license, which lets you share it, provided that you do so on a noncommercial basis. Septem/ Cory Doctorow Official Downloads:Ībove, you’ll find links to downloadable editions of the text of Pirate Cinema.
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