Joshua Wise transcribed my 28C3 lecture, The Coming War on General Purpose Computation. He's released the text under Creative Commons Attribution. The text is on GitHub, in Markdown format, and Joshua says, "The format is both markdown and probably also machine-parseable, with some manual intervention." The Q&A hasn't been transcribed, but I'd welcome that if someone would like to take a crack at it!

  • Mujokan

    You forgot to write it down, huh?

  • http://halfbakedmaker.org Robert Baruch

    Cory released the speech under CC BY-NC-ND. Presumably the ND is so that nobody can put words in his mouth? On the other hand, Wikisource seems to define ND as “Non-derivative criteria limit or disallow modifications, translations, or derived works such as musical arrangements, dramatizations, fictionalizations, motion picture versions, sound recordings, art reproductions, abridgments, condensations, or annotations.” (see here) I don’t see why Cory would prohibit that. So I’m not clear on what ND actually means.

    • Cory Doctorow

      I didn’t release it at all. The video was released by CCC (the person who makes the recording holds the copyright). The copyright in the text is CC-BY (it was never written down, I spoke from bullet-point notes).

      • http://halfbakedmaker.org Robert Baruch

        By “text”, do you mean the speech as actually rendered by you at that time (i.e. not your notes)? Could, then, Joshua (if he were to agree) also release the transcript under CC-BY despite the fact that the transcript was based off a CC-BY-NC-ND work (which requires all derivative works such as transcripts to be licensed also under CC-BY-NC-ND)?

        My ultimate goal here is to see if the transcript could loaded onto Wikisource.

        The reason I’m interested is that I also recently translated your Scroogled story into Latin, but the license has to be CC-BY-NC because that is the original license. Which means the translation could not be put up on Wikisource (which also means, sadly, I’d have to host the translation elsewhere).

        • Cory Doctorow

          I think you’re overthinking this. Just treat the text as CC-BY. I’m unambiguously the author of said text, and I’m stelling you that that is the license you may use.

          • http://halfbakedmaker.org Robert Baruch

            Thank you — I appreciate the explicit statement.

      • Mujokan

        Damn extemporizers…

  • http://halfbakedmaker.org Robert Baruch

    With Joshua’s change to the CC-BY license, the text is now up on Wikisource. Another work by Cory in his sadly sparse Wikisource page!

  • http://halfbakedmaker.org Robert Baruch

    I have also marked up the speech in Wikisource with various helpful wiki links in case a Congressman who is proud that they are not a nerd (or more likely, a staffer) reads the transcript.

  • http://halfbakedmaker.org Robert Baruch

    BTW, Cory, when you mentioned all the organizations supporting digital freedom (EFF, Bits of Freedom, and so on), I got them all except for “Nets Politique” Was that supposed to be Netpolitique?

    • http://twitter.com/m4lvin m4lvin

      I guess he meant the german netzpolitik.org guys who are also known as Digitale gesellschaft e.V. by now.

      • http://halfbakedmaker.org Robert Baruch

        Excellent, that’s what it was. I’ve updated the transcript in Wikisource.

  • andi0

    I added the transcript to the recording on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg

    The timing was done automatically via YouTube’s upload transcript feature. If you want to improve the timing, just talk to us. We can provide an SRT file.