Streaming AudioBook of Lessig's "Free Culture"
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Lessig's Free Culture Chinese fan-trans
Lessig's Free Culture Chinese fan-trans
04/10/2004 03:46 AMKevin sez, "Some Chinese bloggers have recently launed a collabrative
transaltion project to translate Lessig's Free Culture into Chinese,
Create a Wiki page in SocialBrain. So far, 21 people have joined this
collaborative project, memes appeared in lots of blogs. 12 chapters
were assigned by contributors to translate."
Link
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Thanks, Kevin!)
Something for Nothing: The Free Culture
AudioBook Project
Something for Nothing: The Free Culture
AudioBook Project
05/25/2004 02:43 PMchocnvodka.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2004/5/24/75489.html
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Del audiobook de "Free Culture" al
audiolibro de "Cultura Libre"
Del audiobook de "Free Culture" al
audiolibro de "Cultura Libre"
09/01/2004 05:45 PMLessig's free book still racking in the
sales
Lessig's free book still racking in the
sales
07/27/2004 02:20 PMStanford Magazine carries a story this month about our chairman and
co-founder Lawrence Lessig's book
which has just entered its third printing. This is interesting because
the book is freely
available online for download (under a Creative Commons license),
and has been downloaded about 180,000 times. On the one hand an author
can give away free content for folks to remake into audio books,
translations, and other formats, and the author
still gets paid through traditional book sales. Amazing how that
works, and works so well sometimes. [via Copyfight]
Bill of Rights free MP3 audiobook
Bill of Rights free MP3 audiobook
12/27/2004 10:38 AM
Cory Doctorow:
For free on TellTale Weekly, a website that produces high-quality
audiobooks from public domain texts: an MP3 reading of the Bill of
Rights.
Link
Free Culture!
Free Culture!
10/28/2003 11:07 PMI helped put together the new
Creative Commons CD featuring all sorts of great licensed music,
and it's all available for download.
Now that the pool of CC-licensed music has grown, we had a great
deal of choices and as a result there are all sorts of songs in the
mix. I've been listening to these songs for months and it's hard to
pick favorites, they've all got some strengths. Don't miss the bonus remixes
too, the creativity there was amazing.
Free Culture
Free Culture
04/09/2004 04:11 PMFree Culture reviews
Free Culture reviews
04/09/2004 04:06 PMReviews for
Free Culture are
here, with comment
space and an
RSS feed too.
Free Culture live
Free Culture live
09/10/2004 04:26 PM
Colin Mutchler, featured
in our second Creative Commons movie "Reticulum
Rex", is giving a live performance of his audio/visual work called
"Free Culture"
September 15th in
Brooklyn, NY.
"Sourced by Larry Lessig and his new book of the same name, Free
Culture is multimedia performance by Brooklyn based artist Colin
Mutchler that mixes music, image, video and spoken word to speak his
personal journey, both physically and digitally, through the last four
years. "
A Wikipedia of Free Culture?
A Wikipedia of Free Culture?
07/02/2004 03:32 AMQ: How to plan a wiki?
A: Hash out ideas on a wiki.
So we set up a wiki
and we're holding a barn
raising there. You're
invited.
Our objective is to plan a "Get Content" wiki, a scalable catalog
of "some rights reserved" and "no rights reserved" works.
A truly international catalog of CC and PD works. A Wikipedia of Free Culture,
democratically maintained and curated.
Can this work? We have a hunch that it can, but we've doubtless
missed many solutions and innumerable problems.
What we have thought of is of course on the
wiki, where you should go without
further adieu and add your
ideas.
Note for anyone excited about the idea: we're planning at this
stage. The wiki we're using for the planning may not be the one we
use to implement the "Get Content" wiki (do help us figure that one
out) -- so you may wish to curb your enthusiasm for raw cataloging
just right now.
Now dive
in!
Free Culture formats
Free Culture formats
04/09/2004 04:06 PMThe free
Free
Culture was released as a pdf under a
Creative Commons
attribution-noncommercial license. Some complained about the
format. Others, relying upon the freedom granted, created derivative
works in other formats. So far, 36 hours after the book was released,
I know of 9 versions available, including:
MS-re
ader,
Rocke
t e-Book,
zippe
d,
iSilo
,
Mobip
ocket,
EasyR
ead,
PostScri
pt,
Pl
ain Text,
html.
Most of these are from
Blackmask, but thanks to
Firas,
Mike and
Josh as well.
The Free Culture debate
The Free Culture debate
02/11/2004 09:39 AMJames DeLong
responds to
my post about the Free Culture Movement (FCM) and property
rights. He steps back from his earlier statements and
acknowledges that, yes, there are elements of the movement, such as
Creative Commons, that work within the property rights system.
For that I give him credit.
I don't agree with his stark division of the FCM into "BSD Licence"
activities that respect property rights and "GPL" activities that seek
to overthrow them, but I won't be ungrateful. It's a much more
nuanced and accurate view that what he started with. If we can
spend our energy debating the substance of the issues -- which sets of
rules better promote economic efficiency, freedom, and innovation --
we
may make some progress.
To my mind, the genius of people like Larry Lessig and Yochai Benkler
is that, unlike the prior "copyleft" generation represented by GPL
creator Richard Stallman, they are able to engage on their opponents'
own turf as well as from the outside. What set me off about
DeLong's original post was the unwillingness to accept that fact, by
labeling the whole movement as opposed to property rights.
DeLong takes umbrage at my use of the term "copyright
maximalists." First of all, I didn't apply that label to him --
I
was thinking more of Jack Valenti. As DeLong makes clear in his
followup post, he appreciates that property rights have limits:
"
Wiki for Free Culture
Wiki for Free Culture
07/12/2004 08:59 AMCreative Commons is experimenting with using a wiki to discuss using a
wiki to maintain a Wikipedia of sorts for Free Culture. Drop by and
give us your thoughts....
Free Culture class
Free Culture class
04/09/2004 04:06 PMLawrence Solum (who has entered an elite status after Vint Cerf gave a
paper praising his
Layer
s Principle paper) is running a blog-class this week on Free
Culture.
Follow along (as I will be) and learn.
Free Culture spoken
Free Culture spoken
04/09/2004 04:06 PMThis has amazed even me.
AKMA asked
whether a free audio version of
Free
Culture can be built. Joi seconded the idea, and one day later,
ten chapters are claimed. Doug Kaye of
ITConversations has already
recorded chapter one --
Creators. Noncommercial derivative works, and maybe even a competition in
versions (I want to record a chapter!). Very cool.
Free Culture in 100 words
Free Culture in 100 words
04/09/2004 04:11 PMSince no one has the time to read books anymore, I used the text
version of Lessig's new book, Free Culture, and Word's AutoSummary
feature (like I did with the Matrix thread) to produce a ~100 word
summary of the 368 page book: FREE CULTURE"PROPERTY"The copyright
warriors are right: A copyright is a kind of property. First, about
copyright. That copyright is their property. America copied English
copyright law. Actually,...
Free Culture On Tour
Free Culture On Tour
03/19/2005 03:27 AMFree Culture may be
visiting a college, youth media group, or festival near you.
Brooklyn-based artist Colin Mutchler, in partnership with FreeCulture.org, has launched a
five-week tour which kicked off last week at South by Southwest.
The Free Culture show mixes music, images, and spoken word to
demonstrate the complex and entertaining cross section between
cultural property and freedom. Check it out!
Free Culture at ILAW
Free Culture at ILAW
05/14/2004 03:12 PM
Chairman and co-founder of Creative Commons, Larry Lessig, spent most of this
week speaking at the ILAW
conference at Harvard. There are some great notes and transcripts
on Furdlog
and Copyfight
of Lessig's "Free Culture" talk. There are a lot of great
questions from the moderator and audience, and a lot of great ideas
being debated.
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announced a special limited sale on a Palm PDA + Pimsleur Bookchip
bundle for selected Pimsleur Language Bookchips. [PRWEB May 27, 2005]
Help make a Wikipedia of Free Culture
Help make a Wikipedia of Free Culture
07/09/2004 05:19 AMCreative Commons is creating a "Wikipedia of Free Culture" with links
and annotation for every bit of open-licensed material in the
universe. You're invited to help.
LinkWoody Guthrie free culture
Woody Guthrie free culture
04/09/2004 03:54 PMJoel Blain recently wrote
in with an interesting observation:
"I've been reading a bio
on Woody Guthrie. It's pretty interesting. The book reprints one
of the "Copyright Warnings" he included on his recordings in the ealry
40's
"This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright
# 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it
without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we
don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel
it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do."
It just made me think of Creative Commons. I dunno if you've seen
or heard it before, but I thought I'd pass it along."
Nice find, thanks Joel!
Free Culture Phase 2 Conference
Free Culture Phase 2 Conference
06/17/2005 05:02 PMA little late on the blogging (due to travel), but still worth
reporting on:
A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to attend the Free
Culture Phase 2 conference. The conference was organized by
Malkia Lydia and Colin Mutchler (father of Creative Commons' theme
song My Life and
Free Culture Tour),
and sponsored by American University.
It brought together a small number of diverse younger and older
activists, including Freeculture.org, Downhill Battle, Listen Up, Third World Majority, Eyebeam, and many more. The diverse
group struggled to understand what free culture truly means in the
context of global economics, access to technology, and traditional
knowledge. The group also shared ideas, art, and experiences using
new media as a tool for social justice. Though it wasn't clearly
defined what Phase 2 might be, it was understood to me that the root
of what everyone was doing came from a common passion for citizen
self-determination and empowerment.
Free Culture and Property Rights
Free Culture and Property Rights
02/10/2004 02:47 AMOver at the Progress and Freedom Foundation
blog, James DeLong
attempts to prove that the "
"
This is a nice case of simply asserting
what the author is allegedly attempting to prove. In fact, Free
Culture is eminently consistent with markets and property
rights.
Lessig's Creative Commons and successful open source projects are
based
on well-defined software licenses. In other words, property
rights that function in a market. The network infrastructure
piece of Free Culture, open spectrum is expressly built on the idea of
a market in wireless devices replacing a system of government spectrum
micro-management. And it was the Framers of the US Constitution,
hardly anti-property radicals, who decreed that copyrights be for a
limited period of time.
The property rights maximalists are the true radicals here. They
have defined any challenges to the status quo as a frontal attack on
property rights. As political propaganda, this effort may have
some success. But the ultimate strength of the Free Culture
Movement, or whatever one calls it, lies in this: It is an
internal critique of the dominant
ideology, not an external challenge to markets like communism.
The Free Culture proponents, who offer suggestions like returning to
the copyright terms of the 1790s, are the true conservatives in this
debate.
free culture source material
free culture source material
06/12/2004 04:34 AMTheBots have released an archive
of
George
Bush Audio.
An extremely beautiful Free Culture
eBook
An extremely beautiful Free Culture
eBook
04/09/2004 04:06 PMThere is an extremely beautiful ebook version of
Free Culture
here. I continue to be astonished at the creativity free culture
(the idea, not the book) inspires.
Free Culture Wiki: Piracy Hits a New Low
Free Culture Wiki: Piracy Hits a New Low
04/09/2004 04:10 PMIn the latest example of blatant intellectual property abuse,
self-proclaimed ?hacker? Aaron Swartz has uploaded the entirety of the
bestselling?
Freely downloadable Free Culture going
into third printing
Freely downloadable Free Culture going
into third printing
07/27/2004 05:50 PM
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Lessig's free book
still racking in the sales
Stanford Magazine carries a story this month about our chairman and
co-founder Lawrence Lessig's book
which has just entered its third printing. This is interesting because
the book is freely
available online for download (under a Creative Commons license),
and has been downloaded about 180,000 times. On the one hand an author
can give away free content for folks to remake into audio books,
translations, and other formats, and the author
still gets paid through traditional book sales. Amazing how that
works, and works so well sometimes. [via Copyfight]
It
will be very difficult to "prove" that the Creative Common license and
the freely downloadable aspect of
Free Culture improved
sales, but the book is selling and making it freely available has
clearly not STOPPED sales. I wonder if it is possible to show that
making books available for free electronically increases the sale of
real books? I wonder if there are particular genres where this holds
more true...
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Happy Birthday, Free Culture Movement
(finally)
Happy Birthday, Free Culture Movement
(finally)
06/22/2005 02:31 AMSo as
reported
about two months ago, the
Free
Culture Movement turned one in April. I promised a present. At the
time, we were organizing a call in recording of "Happy Birthday," from
some of the leaders of the free world. Well, finally, after some
struggle clearing rights, and after lots of nitpicking on my part,
we've released the song. Check out the @page at Creative Commons,
donate something in support, and download the song.
Sorry for the delay.
Debates about global issues, politics
and culture set "CC-free"
Debates about global issues, politics
and culture set "CC-free"
06/17/2005 05:02 PMIn recent news -
openDemocracy.net has announced that it is releasing around 150 of its existing
articles under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license and will also be
incorporating the option of Creative Commons licensing for all future
contributors.
openDemocracy is an online magazine that provides
a forum in which global issues relating to politics and culture are
debated, many of which do not receive sufficient or sufficiently
careful attention by the mainstream media. A brief review of
openDemocracy's au
thor pages shows that recent authors have included Kofi Annan,
Timothy Garton Ash, Janis Ian, Iris Marion Young, Salman Rushdie,
George Soros, Richard Stallman and Gillian Slovo.
It is great to
have such a high caliber publication committed to the principles of
spreading ideas around the globe and adopting a Creative Commons to
fulfill that objective. You can read more about their decision to
switch and why Salman Rushdie said no to a Creative Commons license in
our recent Featured Commoner
segment.
Video of Lessig Free Culture speech in
Helsinki
Video of Lessig Free Culture speech in
Helsinki
07/27/2004 02:35 PM
There a small, but well produced mp4 video of Lessig's speech about Free Culture and
the Creative Commons that he gave when he was in Helsinki
this May.
Thanks to Jyri at
Aula for the link and for organizing the event.
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Bill Gates: Free Culture advocates =
Commies
Bill Gates: Free Culture advocates =
Commies
01/06/2005 12:07 AMXeni Jardin:
I imagine my blog-mate Cory might have a few things to say about this
when he's online again. :-) In an interview on news.com, Microsoft
co-founder Bill Gates described free culture advocates as a
"modern-day sort of communists." Well now.
Q: "In recent years, there's been a lot of people clamoring to reform
and restrict intellectual-property rights. It started out with just a
few people, but now there are a bunch of advocates saying, 'We've got
to look at patents, we've got to look at copyrights.' What's driving
this, and do you think intellectual-property laws need to be reformed?
A: "No, I'd say that of the world's economies, there's more that
believe in intellectual property today than ever. There are fewer
communists in the world today than there were. There are some new
modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for
musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises.
They don't think that those incentives should exist.
And this debate will always be there. I'd be the first to say that the
patent system can always be tuned--including the U.S. patent system.
There are some goals to cap some reform elements. But the idea that
the United States has led in creating companies, creating jobs,
because we've had the best intellectual-property system--there's no
doubt about that in my mind, and when people say they want to be the
most competitive economy, they've got to have the incentive system.
Intellectual property is the incentive system for the products of the
future."
Link
(
Thanks, Rick Prelinger,
and Nathan Slaughter).
BB reader Matt Bradley said,
"Obviously, what we need is a large red flag with a gold copyleft in the upper
left, replacing the hammer and sickle."
That sounded like a fine idea, so I whipped up the icon you see here.
Enjoy, comrades!
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Bill Gates calls free culture advocates
communists
Bill Gates calls free culture advocates
communists
01/07/2005 12:01 AM
Xeni @ Boing Boing
Bill Gates: Free Culture advocates = Commies
In an interview on news.com, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates
described free culture advocates as a "modern-day sort of communists."
Well now.
Q: "In recent years, there's been a lot of people
clamoring to reform and restrict intellectual-property rights. It
started out with just a few people, but now there are a bunch of
advocates saying, 'We've got to look at patents, we've got to look at
copyrights.' What's driving this, and do you think
intellectual-property laws need to be reformed?
A: "No, I'd say that of the world's economies, there's more that
believe in intellectual property today than ever. There are fewer
communists in the world today than there were. There are some new
modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for
musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises.
They don't think that those incentives should exist.
Lessig
Blog
what a total
(intellectual) disappointment this man is
If I had the time, and the money, I'd do the deep analysis that it
would take to explain to myself why it is I constantly hope to be
surprised by Mr. Gates. Yet I never am.
It's one thing to read this sort of thing from a studio exec, or
head of a record label -- surrounded as they are by the sort that
surround them. But the people I've met at Microsoft are miles beyond
this sort of silliness. Does Mr. Gates not even talk to them?
More Gates "Creative Commies" propaganda on Boing Boing.
I'd be interested to know why Larry expected to be positively
surprised by Mr. Gates.
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Free Culture and the Future of Music,
Part 1: Ad Hominem, Ad Nauseum
Free Culture and the Future of Music,
Part 1: Ad Hominem, Ad Nauseum
05/04/2004 09:12 PMHow influential is the Free Culture Movement and the book that gives
it its name? One way to judge is by measuring the ferocity of the
opposition. Those who have pushed for copyright maximization over the
past decade or so have been able to do so unfettered by inconveniences
like...
UMaine launches free
culture/code/knowledge service
UMaine launches free
culture/code/knowledge service
12/16/2003 11:12 AMThe University of Maine has launched "Still Water," a copyright-free
zone for posting and sharing images, music, videos, programming code
and texts.
"We are training revolutionaries -- not by indoctrinating them with
dogma but by exposing them to a process in which sharing culture
rather than hoarding it is the norm," said Joline Blais, a professor
of new media at the University of Maine and Still Water co-director.
LinkLessig's ghosts and what you can do
Lessig's ghosts and what you can do
06/05/2005 11:34 PM
In the May 30, 2005 issue of New York Magazine there is
a story that included details about Lawrence Lessig being repeatedly
molested by the choir director when he was a choirboy. The article
covers the history and the current lawsuit where another former
choirboy, John Hardwicke is suing the school with Lessig's help. As a
friend of Larry's, it was painful to read the article and it was even
more painful trying to figure out what to say to him.
Larry blogged about
it initially a few days ago and there were a stream of supportive
comments. Today, he
posted about what we should do to prevent this kind of thing in the
future, and I believe this is a critical message to get out. He
writes about the law in New Jersey that immunizes charitable
institutions from "negligence" in the hiring of a teacher. This is
what the defense is using against the claims of responsibility for the
abuse. There is a bill that has been introduced to remove that
immunity, but leaders from the Catholic Church have opposed the
change. I often get criticized for meddling in American politics, but
I think this is an important issue. There are links on Larry's post to
pages about what you can do. I think the Church should be ashamed.
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Boing Boing: Bill Gates: Free Culture
advocates = Commies
Boing Boing: Bill Gates: Free Culture
advocates = Commies
01/06/2005 02:39 PMyesterday's Boing Boing post .. posts more of Gates' quote, ..
BoingBoing
link
boingboing.net/2005/01/05/bill_gates_free_cult.html
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Rick Boucher and Lessig's readers hash
over the Induce Act
Rick Boucher and Lessig's readers hash
over the Induce Act
08/09/2004 03:18 PMCongressman Rick Boucher -- he of the HR 107 bill to repeal the worst
elements of the DMCA -- is guestblogging for Lessig this week. His
first post asks whether the Induce Act is as bad as it seems, and what
follows in a surprisingly calm and learned (yet impassioned)
discussion of the Induce Act's contours and potential failings, with
the Congressman actively participating. This is a total
We the Media moment.
Link
The Fight Between Sharing Culture And
Owning Culture
The Fight Between Sharing Culture And
Owning Culture
06/22/2005 02:17 AMIt seems that museums are finally starting to realize that the digital
age represents a real opportunity for them to
reach many new people by digitizing their
offerings and sharing the culture they represent across a much wider
audience than a physical museum allows. It seems that many museums
are having trouble figuring out how to digitize their collections, and
would welcome help in doing so. However, another story points out how
that can cause problems when the people involved get stuck on
intellectual property issues. Apparently some people who created 3D
digital versions of Michelangelo's David are freaking out that if
they share the digitization without some form of copy protection
people might (gasp!)
share it without permission. Wait a second... isn't
that what they should
want? That would allow them to share the
cultural wonder with many, many more people, and allow them to
experience it in ways never possible before. That's a
good
thing, not something to be worried about. However, in an age
where people seem to think that every idea, concept, software or piece
of data needs to be "owned" and locked up, apparently it's the natural
response -- and that's unfortunate for every culture.
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