Hi,

I'm wondering whether there are any snippets of Gaiman available using a creative commons license.

I am working on a creative writing pack including information on creative commons license for schools in South Australia.

I know that Gaiman builds on folk and traditional public domain type yarns, tales and myths and wondered if he had thrown any morsels back into the pool. =)

My aim is to put together a kind of pack which helps children to learn not just about copyright but about copyleft and creative writing released under licenses which enable them to interact and participate in building on modern mythologies.

Thought it might be a good way to promote the wider body of Gaiman's work as well.

Happy to chat to other folk who would be interested in participating too.

Just finished reading the Anansi boys and thought this might be a good spot to ask.
It seemed to me that building on creative commons and public domain resources is a tasty way to pass on Anansi bloodline =).

Cheers from here

lucychili

Sorry, Lucy,


In a question Neil answered some time ago on his blog, with the pertinent bits in bold:

quote:

I think it's great that books get posted on-line. I think that for example Cory Doctorow posting his books online is an excellent marketing idea (here's Cory's site). I'm all in favour of creative commons. I like putting my own work up on-line: I think it's a marvellous way for people to find stuff. The last post has a link to several sites which contain short stories and poems by me. There's free stuff to read all over neilgaiman.com. (And I'm happy to post links to places you can hear some of the audio books without paying for them, like this: http://www.scifi.com/set/playhouse/snowglassapples/ and also this, http://www.scifi.com/set/playhouse/murder/)

But part of the concept of copyright is that you can decide how and where your work is -- or isn't -- reproduced. I don't want people putting my novels up on their sites; I don't care whether they feel they're doing me some kind of favour by promoting my work or not. If I wanted the books up online, I'd post them myself.

http://www.neilgaiman.com/journal/archive/2004_05_01_archive.html

As far as I know, he hasn't participated in including his stuff with creative commons. But I'm not entirely sure. It might be worth investigating by asking him directly here : http://www.neilgaiman.com/faqs/askneil/formmailer

Thanks.
Ive posted using the form.
All the best.
Janet