Title: "Free Culture" by @lessig - The background story for Creative Commons - new edition available
Tags: english, docbook, freeculture
-Date: 2015-10-23 13:20
+Date: 2015-10-23 12:10
-In 2004, as the <ahref="https://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons
+<p><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22402863.html">Click
+here to buy the book</a>.</p>
+
+<p>In 2004, as the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons
movement</a> gained momentum, its creator Lawrence Lessig wrote the
-book <ahref="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Culture_(book)">Free
+book <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Culture_(book)">Free
Culture</a> to explain the problems with increasing copyright
-regulation and suggest some solutions. I read the book and was moved
-by it. Reading the book inspired me and changed the way I looked on
-copyright law, and I would love it if more people would read it
-too.</p>
+regulation and suggest some solutions. I read the book back then and
+was very moved by it. Reading the book inspired me and changed the
+way I looked on copyright law, and I would love it if more people
+would read it too.</p>
<p>Because of this, I decided in the summer of 2012 to translate it to
Norwegian Bokmål and publish it for those of my friends and family
-that prefer to read books in Norwegian. Because of the way I
-translated the book, using docbook and a gettext PO file, I also ended
-up with a new edition of the English original. I've been in touch
-with the author all the way, and he said it was fine with him to also
-publish an English version. Today, I made this edition
-<ahref="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22402863.html">available
+that prefer to read books in Norwegian. I translated the book using
+docbook and a gettext PO file, and a byproduct of this process is a
+new edition of the English original. I've been in touch with the
+author during by work, and he said it was fine with him if I also
+published an English version. So I decided to do so. Today, I made
+this edition
+<a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22402863.html">available
for sale on Lulu.com</a>, for those interested in a paper book. This
is the cover:
-<p><img align="center" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-10-23-free-culture-english-published-cover.png"/></p>
+<p align="center"><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22402863.html"><img align="center" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-10-23-free-culture-english-published-cover.png"/></a></p>
-<p>I will make the Norwegian Bokmål version available for purchase in
-a few days.</p>
+<p>The Norwegian Bokmål version will be available for purchase in a
+few days. I also plan to publish a French version in a few weeks or
+months, depending on the amount of people with knowledge of French to
+join the translation project. So far there is only one active
+person, but the French book is almost completely translated but
+need some proof reading.</p>
<p>The book is also available in PDF, ePub and MOBI formats from
-<ahref="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">my
+<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">my
github project page</a>. Note the ePub and MOBI versions have some
formatting problems I believe is due to bugs in the docbook tool
dbtoepub (Debian BTS issues
-<ahref="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=795842">#795842</a>
+<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=795842">#795842</a>
and
-<ahref="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796871">#796871</a>),
+<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796871">#796871</a>),
but I have not taken the time to investigate. I recommend the PDF and
ePub version for now, as they seem to show up fine in the viewers I
have available.</p>
-After the translation was complete, I was able to get some sponsoring
-from the NUUG Foundation to print the book. This is the reason their
-logo is located on the back cover. I am very grateful for their
-contribution.</p>
+<p>After the translation to Norwegian Bokmål was complete, I was able
+to secure some sponsoring from
+<a href="http://www.nuugfoundation.no/">the NUUG Foundation</a> to
+print the book. This is the reason their logo is located on the back
+cover. I am very grateful for their contribution, and will use it to
+give a copy of the Norwegian edition to members of the Norwegian
+Parliament and other decision makers here in Norway.</p>
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