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Twitter’s success is people discovering the excitement of publishing.
The 140 character limit and the overall simplicity is exactly what attracts even those who didn’t think they had thoughts and ideas worth publishing. The rest of it is just a stripped down e-mail functionality.
If you want to know what the spirit of GPL and Free Software is, listen to what Stephen Fry and Richard Stallman have to say. These ideas are so simple and amazing at the same time that no rule or license can fully define them. You have to sense them.
“They don’t have the right to read a book out loud,” said Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild. “That’s an audio right, which is derivative under copyright law.” — New Kindle Audio Feature Causes a Stir
Yeah. It’s like saying “You can’t sing that Beatles song”.
We don’t pay for the individual letters or words in the book, but rather for the whole content, the idea and the story. Words spoken out loud are not derivate work of the same words in writing.