FYI Doctorow went all the way for a Public Domain license:
http://boingboing.net/2013/01/12/rip-aaron-swartz.html



On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Fred Benenson <[email protected]>wrote:

> I use BY and WSJ still got in contact with me to ask permission. It's on
> their homepage now and I know they are looking for more photos, so it'd be
> good to contribute them if you can.
>
>
> On Jan 12, 2013, at 6:02 PM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Sage - really?  You wouldn't give them either a -BY or a nontransferrable
> license for this use? It's a brilliant photo.
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Sage Ross <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> FYI, Noam Cohen has been covering free culture-related issues for the
>> Times for a while; he's the one who usually writes their Wikipedia
>> stories.
>>
>> Point being, it's a potential opportunity to amplify some of what
>> Aaron believed in, as Cohen has the background to understand it and
>> write clearly about it.
>>
>> I just got to the end of a conversation with the director of
>> photography of The Wall Street Journal, who wanted to use a portrait I
>> made, but (it turns out, after about 5 rounds of email) even "Sage
>> Ross/Creative Commons BY-SA 2.0" was too much to ask of them. But I
>> think I was able to convey the point of the license, and why it was
>> important to me that they follow the license if they were going to use
>> it.
>>
>> -Sage
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Jennifer Baek <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I'm extending this conversation to discuss as well...
>> >
>> > Although we may not know all of the circumstances surrounding his
>> passing,
>> > it is symbolic of the increasingly stressed and divided climate that
>> exists
>> > between the law and information culture.  This NYT article is an chance
>> for
>> > us to make a statement in honor of Aaron and his work. One person alone
>> may
>> > not be the best person to say something, but we can collectively try
>> and put
>> > something together--begin to brainstorm things we might say, and then
>> > prepare a statement for this Noam fellow by tomorrow morning...
>> thoughts?
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Kevin Driscoll <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I feel like shit and have nothing to say to anyone about this and I'm
>> >> not the right person to talk to this guy anyway but it seems like
>> >> someone should write him back. Even if the statement is something as
>> >> simple as, "Out of grief, Students for Free Culture politely declines
>> >> to talk to the press about Aaron Swartz's death right now."
>> >>
>> >> Kevin
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Noam Cohen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> > Hi there -- I sent a version of this e-mail to Adi Kamdar -- my
>> contact
>> >> > more
>> >> > than a year ago for an article about Aaron Swartz. I haven't gotten a
>> >> > response, and I am hoping someone from this movement can get back to
>> me
>> >> > by
>> >> > tomorrow morning for a piece I am writing.
>> >> >
>> >> > You can imagine the sad circumstances I am writing about now.
>> >> > Because of the last article I wrote about Aaron Swartz, I was asked
>> to
>> >> > take
>> >> > a day and look at what these meant (if anything) for the free culture
>> >> > movement.
>> >> > I won't write a long note now -- are you the right person to be
>> speaking
>> >> > with?
>> >> > Also, I'd love the opportunity to chat with you (or the right
>> person) to
>> >> > sound out ideas -- it is easy to overreact to such sad news; I want
>> to
>> >> > be
>> >> > accurate with our readers about what Aaron meant in life and death.
>> >> > I can be reached at 347-525-5655; or I can call you.
>> >> > Looking forward to speaking with you again,
>> >> > Noam
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