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-<quote><citetitle>Free Culture</citetitle> is an entertaining and
-important look at the past and future of the cold war between the
-media industry and new technologies.</quote> — <emphasis>Marc Andreessen,
-cofounder of Netscape</emphasis>
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-
- <para>
-<quote>America needs a national conversation about the way in which
-so-called <quote>intellectual property rights</quote> have come to
-dominate the rights of scholars, researchers, and everyday citizens. A
-copyright cartel, bidding for absolute control over digital worlds,
-music, and movies, now has a veto over technological innovation and
-has halted most contributions to the public domain from which so many
-have benefited. The patent system has spun out of control, giving
-enormous power to entrenched interests, and even trademarks are being
-misused. Lawrence Lessig's latest book is essential reading for anyone
-who want to join this conversation. He explains how technology and the
-law are robbing us of the public domain; but for all his educated
-pessimism, Professor Lessig offers some solutions, too, because he
-recognizes that technology can be the catalyst for freedom. If you
-care about the future of innovation, read this book.</quote> —
-<emphasis>Dan Gillmor, author of <citetitle>Making the
-News</citetitle>, an upcoming book on the collision of media and
-technology</emphasis>
- </para>
-
- <para>
-<quote><citetitle>Free Culture</citetitle> goes beyond illuminating
-the catastrophe to our culture of increasing regulation to show
-examples of how we can make a different future. These new-style heroes
-and examples are rooted in the traditions of the founding fathers in
-ways that seem obvious after reading this book. Recommended reading to
-those trying to unravel the shrill hype around <quote>intellectual
-property.</quote></quote> — <emphasis>Brewster Kahle, founder of the
-Internet Archive</emphasis>
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-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.
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- <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.
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-
- <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 and Ingrid Yrvin 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. 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 2015-08-27
- </para>