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15 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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23 <div class="title">"Free Culture" by @lessig - The background story for Creative Commons - new edition available</div>
24 <div class="date">23rd October 2015</div>
25 <div class="body"><p><a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22402863.html">Click
26 here to buy the book</a>.</p>
27
28 <p>In 2004, as the <a href="https://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons
29 movement</a> gained momentum, its creator Lawrence Lessig wrote the
30 book <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Culture_(book)">Free
31 Culture</a> to explain the problems with increasing copyright
32 regulation and suggest some solutions. I read the book back then and
33 was very moved by it. Reading the book inspired me and changed the
34 way I looked on copyright law, and I would love it if more people
35 would read it too.</p>
36
37 <p>Because of this, I decided in the summer of 2012 to translate it to
38 Norwegian Bokmål and publish it for those of my friends and family
39 that prefer to read books in Norwegian. I translated the book using
40 docbook and a gettext PO file, and a byproduct of this process is a
41 new edition of the English original. I've been in touch with the
42 author during by work, and he said it was fine with him if I also
43 published an English version. So I decided to do so. Today, I made
44 this edition
45 <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22402863.html">available
46 for sale on Lulu.com</a>, for those interested in a paper book. This
47 is the cover:
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49 <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>
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51 <p>The Norwegian Bokmål version will be available for purchase in a
52 few days. I also plan to publish a French version in a few weeks or
53 months, depending on the amount of people with knowledge of French to
54 join the translation project. So far there is only one active
55 person, but the French book is almost completely translated but
56 need some proof reading.</p>
57
58 <p>The book is also available in PDF, ePub and MOBI formats from
59 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">my
60 github project page</a>. Note the ePub and MOBI versions have some
61 formatting problems I believe is due to bugs in the docbook tool
62 dbtoepub (Debian BTS issues
63 <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=795842">#795842</a>
64 and
65 <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796871">#796871</a>),
66 but I have not taken the time to investigate. I recommend the PDF and
67 ePub version for now, as they seem to show up fine in the viewers I
68 have available.</p>
69
70 <p>After the translation to Norwegian Bokmål was complete, I was able
71 to secure some sponsoring from
72 <a href="http://www.nuugfoundation.no/">the NUUG Foundation</a> to
73 print the book. This is the reason their logo is located on the back
74 cover. I am very grateful for their contribution, and will use it to
75 give a copy of the Norwegian edition to members of the Norwegian
76 Parliament and other decision makers here in Norway.</p>
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79 <div class="tags">Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/docbook">docbook</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture">freeculture</a>.</div>
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91 <h2>Archive</h2>
92 <ul>
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94 <li>2017
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107 <li>2016
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136 <li>2015
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165 <li>2014
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194 <li>2013
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223 <li>2012
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252 <li>2011
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281 <li>2010
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310 <li>2009
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339 <li>2008
340 <ul>
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342 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/11/">November (5)</a></li>
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