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<subtitle>How big media uses technology and the law to lock down
culture and control creativity</subtitle>
- <pubdate>2004-03-25</pubdate>
+ <pubdate>2015-09-04</pubdate>
<edition>1</edition>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
-<!-- 2014 -->
-The USA is lesterland: The nature of congressional corruption
+The USA is lesterland: The nature of congressional corruption (2014)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
-<!-- 2011, 2012 -->
-Republic, lost: How money corrupts Congress - and a plan to stop it
+Republic, lost: How money corrupts Congress - and a plan to stop it (2011)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
-<!-- 2008 -->
-Remix: Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy
+Remix: Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy (2008)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
-<!-- 2006 -->
-Code: Version 2.0
+Code: Version 2.0 (2006)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
-<!-- 2001, 2002 -->
-The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
+The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World (2001)
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
-<!-- 1999 -->
-Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace
+Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999)
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</dedication>
the noble class live easily; those outside it don't. But it is
nobility of any form that is alien to our tradition.
</para>
-<!-- PAGE BREAK 26. FIXME: Ask author if "Is it" should be "It is" ? -->
+<!-- PAGE BREAK 26. -->
<para>
The story that follows is about this war. It is not about the
<quote>centrality of technology</quote> to ordinary life. I don't believe in gods,
didn't speak very well. But they had come to understand that they
had a lot of power with this language.
</para>
-<!-- FIXME removed a " from the end of the previous paragraph that did
- not match with any start quote. -->
</blockquote>
<indexterm startref='idxeducationinmedialiteracy' class='endofrange'/>
<indexterm startref='idxmedialiteracy' class='endofrange'/>
</para>
<!--PAGE BREAK 338-->
+</chapter>
+
+<chapter label="" id="c-about-this-edition">
+ <title>About this edition</title>
+ <para>
+This edition of <citetitle>Free Culture</citetitle> is the result of
+three years of volunteer work. The idea came from a discussion I had
+around ten years ago with a friend about the copyright debate in
+Norway, and how rarely the difficulties of long copyright made it into
+the public debate. A bit more than three years ago I finally had a
+look again at the idea and decided to publish a printed Norwegian
+Bokmål version of <citetitle>Free Culture</citetitle>, translated and
+formatted by volunteers. The new English edition is a by-product of
+the translation process.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+Thanks to the Debian Edu / Skolelinux project, I already had
+experience translating Docbook documents, and it seemed like a good
+format for this book too. I found a Docbook formatted version of the
+book created by Hans Schou. Initial testing showed lots of Docbook
+validation errors in this version, but after some work I was able to
+transform it to PDF and EPUB. This was the start of the translation
+project. The Docbook file improved over time, and build rules were
+added to create both English and Bokmål versions. Finally, a call for
+volunteers went out to help me with the translation.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+Several people joined, and Anders Hagen Jarmund, Kirill Miazine and
+Odd Kleiva assisted with the initial translation. Ralph Amissah and
+his SiSu version provided index entries. Morten Sickel and Alexander
+Alemayhu helped with the figures, redrawing some of the bitmaps as
+vector images. Wivi Reinholdtsen, Ingrid Yrvin and Johannes Larsen
+did very valuable proofreading. Håkon Wium Lie helped me track down a
+good replacement font without usage restrictions instead of the one in
+the original PDF. The PDF typesetting is done using dblatex, which we
+selected over the alternatives thanks to the invaluable and quick help
+from Benoît Guillon and Andreas Hoenen. Thomas Gramstad donated ISBN
+numbers needed for distribution to book stores. Marc Jeanmougin from
+the inkscape community helped me replicate the original front cover.
+The support of Lawrence Lessig helped me to complete the project
+– I am very thankful he had the original screen shots still
+available after 11 years.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+I am also very grateful for my family for their patience with me in
+this project.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+— Petter Reinholdtsen, Oslo 2015-09-04
+ </para>
+
</chapter>
<index></index>
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<para>
Published in English and Norwegian Bokmål 2015 by Petter Reinholdtsen
-with help from many volunteers. Typeset using dblatex with Crimson
-Text.
+with help from many volunteers. Typeset with dblatex using the font
+Crimson Text.
</para>
<para>
courtesy of the office of FCC Commissioner, Michael J. Copps.
</para>
+<para>
+Cover created by Petter Reinholdtsen using inkscape.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+The quotes on the cover came from
+<ulink url="http://free-culture.cc/jacket/"/>.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Portrait on the cover was created 2013 by ActuaLitté and licensed
+under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license. It was
+downloaded from
+<ulink url="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ALawrence_Lessig_(11014343366)_(cropped).jpg"/>.
+</para>
+
<para>
Includes index.
</para>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>978-82-8067-010-6</entry>
- <entry>Digest size from lulu.com</entry>
+ <entry>US Trade edition from lulu.com</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>978-82-8067-011-3</entry>
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