*** Greeting

<a href="http://questioncopyright.org" >QuestionCopyright.org</a> is a non-profit organization founded to spread awareness of how modern copyright law interferes with creativity and open collaboration, and to promote the development of non-restrictive distribution methods.

At our store, <a href="http://questioncopyright.com/" >QuestionCopyright.com</a>, we sell two kinds of merchandise:

1. Items like stickers and shirts that show your support for freedom-based culture.  All profits from these items go to support our non-profit work.

2. Products related to a particular artist's work; in these cases, profits are shared with the artist.  For example, in our <a href="/sita.html" >Sita Sings the Blues section</a>, we sell DVDs of Nina Paley's award winning movie <em>Sita Sings the Blues</em>.  The film is released under a free license, which means everyone is free to copy it, remix it, etc.  People buy the DVD here (as well as shirts, prints, and other objects related to the movie) because they know it supports the artist.

For more information about this decentralized, non-monopolistic distribution model, see:

<a href="http://www.questioncopyright.org/understanding_free_content" >questioncopyright.org/understanding_free_content</a>

and

<a href="http://www.questioncopyright.org/sita_distribution" >questioncopyright.org/sita_distribution</a>

All "Sita" related merchandise here is Creator-Endorsed by Nina Paley, meaning she gets some (or all) of the profits!  The rest benefits QuestionCopyright.org.

*** Address-phone

Our contact information:

editors@QuestionCopyright.org

QuestionCopyright.org
P.O. Box 20165
Stanford, CA 94309-0165
USA 

*** Info

Shipping Information:

We've just started up this store, so please bear with us.

DVDs are in stock and ready to ship!

T-shirts will go to press June 12, and ship a week later. First we need to take pre-orders, to guage demand (printing shirts is a big expensive commitment). If there are no orders for certain designs or sizes, we won't run those shirts. So if you want a shirt to exist, be sure to order it NOW. If there's enough demand, we'll add kids' sizes.

Stickers should ship in approximately 3-4 weeks (we're restocking right now).

Cloisonne pins coming soon.

Our order fulfillment and customer service are handled by Amplifier.com in Austin, TX. Maybe they'll tell us what else to write here soon. Then everything would look normal and competent, instead of a seat-of-the-pants distribution project slapped together by a pair of copyright reform activists.  No, really.

*** Privacy policy
3 June, 2009

<h2>QuestionCopyright.Com & Sita Sings the Blues Merchandise Empire Privacy Policy</h2>

Your privacy is important to us.  This following notice explains the information we collect, how it is used, how it is safeguarded, and how to contact us if you have any concerns.

<strong>What Information Is Collected:</strong>

As part of the order process, we collect the following information from shoppers:

Name
Shipping/Billing Address
Email address
Phone number
Credit/Debit Card Information

<strong>How That Information Is Used:</strong>

This information is used by our fulfillment house, Amplifier.com, to charge and ship your order.  Amplifier may save that data so they can provide you with customer service if you have questions about your order, need to change something, etc.

We make every reasonable effort not to reveal any of the information collected to any third-party not already involved in the transaction.  However, as a non-profit, we can't afford to make promises and then get sued if we fail to keep them.  Therefore, we do <em>not</em> promise that none of your data will ever leak.  However, we won't leak it intentionally (except as may be required by law), and we'll try very hard not to leak it accidentally either.

<strong>Contact Us</strong>

store@questioncopyright.org

*** Reasons to shop with us

When you shop with us, you are supporting the artist, and supporting freedom.

When we sell a product containing the work of a particular artist, we share profits with the artist.  For example, when you buy a DVD of <a href="/sita.html" >Sita Sings the Blues</a> here (or a "Sita Sings the Blues" T-shirt or other product), the filmmaker, Nina Paley, benefits directly.  Because we share profits with her, Nina endorses our distribution of her film, and that in turn makes people more likely to buy it here:

<center><a href="http://questioncopyright.org/creator_endorsed" ><img src="/lib/yhst-20024741711964/ce-mark-artist-gold-on-black.jpg" alt="Creator-Endorsed Mark"/></a></center>

But all of our products, including those not related to a particular
artist, promote unmonopolized distribution: the idea that no one should have monopoly control over the uses and re-uses of works of the mind.  Culture flourishes when people don't have to ask permission first.

For more information about why copyright restrictions do not help artists, and how artists can flourish by accepting and permitting freedom, see:

<a href="http://www.questioncopyright.org/understanding_free_content" >Understanding Free Content</a>

<a href="http://www.questioncopyright.org/promise" >The (Surprising) History of Copyright &amp; The Promise of a Post-Copyright World</a>

<a href="http://www.questioncopyright.org/sita_distribution" >The Sita Distribution Project</a>

But even if you think this whole Free Content idea is crazy, you can still buy a T-shirt here.  It's a lot easier than making your own.

*** Description

All of our merchandise's content is freely licensed: you can make copies, share copies, <em>sell</em> copies, excerpt, remix, etc.   But if you want that content packaged in a physical container, such as a DVD or a t-shirt or a sticker, you could do worse than shop with us.  It's convenient for you, and all our profits go to support the artists and our non-profit work on their behalf.

For more information, see <a href="http://questioncopyright.org/understanding_free_content" >Understanding Free Content</a>.

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