The editors of The Industrial Radical reject the concept of
intellectual property
, and favor the abolition of both patent and
copyright restrictions, as a destructive form of protectionism and an invasion
against the individual’s right. A free society means free minds and a free
culture, and to that end we’ve decided to adopt a policy of copyleft
for the magazine: that is, contributors will retain copyright to all the works
that we publish, but by contributing they agree to make their copyrighted work
freely available for reprinting and use in derivative works, under the terms of
a copyleft
license. To paraphrase the Free Software Foundation’s
explanation, proprietary content uses copyright to take away users’ freedom;
free content uses copyright to guarantee their freedom. That’s why we reverse
the name, changing copyright
to copyleft.
. (For more on how
copylefting uses the formal structure of copyright law to undermine invasive
copyright restrictions, see Charles Johnson
(2003-11-06): Copyleft and Copyright: The Prospects for Liberty.)
Except where otherwise noted, for the purpose of national and international
copyright laws, authors retain the copyright to all their works
published in The Industrial Radical. However, we will only
publish articles which have been placed in the public domain, or which the
authors have agreed to make freely available under the terms of a
copyleft
license. Copyleft licenses give explicit, standing
permission for readers to freely make and distribute copies of your original
work, or to make and distribute derivative works based on your work,
provided that they (1) properly credit you as the
creator of the original work, and (2) keep their copies or derivative
works under the same copyleft license, spreading freedom from
restrictive copyright wherever they print it. Your submission of your work for
publication constitutes agreement to make your work available under the most
recent version of the Creative Commons
Attribute-ShareAlike license, unless you specifically dedicate your work to
the public domain, or request another copyleft license be used.
To keep things simple, we strongly prefer works that are either (1) licensed under the most up-to-date version of the Creative Commons Attribute-ShareAlike copyleft license (currently, version 2.5), or (2) certified in the public domain. However, if unusual circumstances require publishing the work under a different license, we will also consider works that have been made available for free use without an explicit license, or under other copyleft licenses, including:
The main thing that we won’t do is publish any works placed under licenses that impose restrictions on free distribution of copies or derivative works beyond the requirements that these works provide honest credit and remain free. The purpose of our copyleft policy is to enable free use, not to restrict it selectively. In particular, we will not publish any works under the restrictions of the Creative Commons NonCommercial or NoDerivs licensing terms.
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