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How to negotiate a Creative Commons license in a work contract

Michael Mandiberg has written a piece, HOWTO Negotiate a Creative Commons License: Ten Steps, targeted at authors working with commercial publishers.
I’ve encountered a similar challenge in a different context: work contracts. Even friendly organizations tend to use legal boilerplate in their contracts — which typically treats your intellectual production as a work for hire, [...]

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