X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/text-free-culture-lessig.git/blobdiff_plain/5d1be12df1e7a720e4eac04d32b549032d95e974..e8450abf4544e246bfada99e6ef72350dc2833a2:/freeculture.xml diff --git a/freeculture.xml b/freeculture.xml index e15a855..43b635e 100644 --- a/freeculture.xml +++ b/freeculture.xml @@ -15625,6 +15625,110 @@ grateful for her perpetual patience and love. + + + + + Quotes + + +Free Culture is an entertaining and +important look at the past and future of the cold war between the +media industry and new technologies. — Marc Andreessen, +cofounder of Netscape + + + +America needs a national conversation about the way in which +so-called intellectual property rights 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. — +Dan Gillmor, author of Making the +News, an upcoming book on the collision of media and +technology + + + +Free Culture 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 intellectual +property. — Brewster Kahle, founder of the +Internet Archive + + + + + + + + +This edition of Free Culture 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 +BokmÃ¥l version of Free Culture, translated and +formatted by volunteers. The new English edition is a by-product of +the translation process. + + + +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 BokmÃ¥l versions. Finally, a call for +volunteers went out to help me with the translation. + + + +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. HÃ¥kon 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. + + + +I am also very grateful for my family for their patience with me in +this project. + + + +— Petter Reinholdtsen, Oslo 2015-08-27 + + @@ -15650,8 +15754,8 @@ Copyright © 2004 Lawrence Lessig. Some rights reserved. Published in English and Norwegian BokmÃ¥l 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.