X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/text-free-culture-lessig.git/blobdiff_plain/ce66edc6eb573bc94f4b20db1ff6ac3f2e36299c..a5961d19d755b6b894fb159dae8601c76e54109a:/freeculture.xml diff --git a/freeculture.xml b/freeculture.xml index a3bd768..c0fdcea 100644 --- a/freeculture.xml +++ b/freeculture.xml @@ -15627,61 +15627,8 @@ grateful for her perpetual patience and love. - - - - -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 - - - - - + + About this edition This edition of Free Culture is the result of three years of volunteer work. The idea came from a discussion I had @@ -15703,23 +15650,24 @@ 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 get help me with the translation. +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 versoin provide index entries. Morten Sickel and Alexander +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 Anna Kennedy did -very valuable proofreading. HÃ¥kon Wium Lie helped me track down a +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 -original PDF. The PDF typesetting is done using dblatex. dblatex was +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. +Lawrence Lessig helped me to complete the project – I am very +thankful he had the original screen shots still available after 11 +years. @@ -15756,8 +15704,8 @@ 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. @@ -15848,7 +15796,7 @@ to get the latest version. 978-82-8067-010-6 - Digest size from lulu.com + US Trade size from lulu.com 978-82-8067-011-3