From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 17:43:59 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Remove 'xv' included by mistake, and improve XML formatting. X-Git-Tag: edition-2015-10-10~2409 X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/text-free-culture-lessig.git/commitdiff_plain/5fc129349959de0f5e6dddbc5f9d5cd51ac445ac Remove 'xv' included by mistake, and improve XML formatting. --- diff --git a/freeculture.xml b/freeculture.xml index c9c1f4f..9b8c8ca 100644 --- a/freeculture.xml +++ b/freeculture.xml @@ -346,15 +346,14 @@ that this work is "merely" derivative. I accept that criticism, if indeed it is a criticism. The work of a -lawyer is always derivative, and I mean to do nothing more in this book -than to remind a culture about a tradition that has always been its own. -Like Stallman, I defend that tradition on the basis of values. Like -Stallman, I believe those are the values of freedom. And like Stallman, -I believe those are values of our past that will need to be defended in -our future. A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our - future -if we change the path we are on right now. -xv +lawyer is always derivative, and I mean to do nothing more in this +book than to remind a culture about a tradition that has always been +its own. Like Stallman, I defend that tradition on the basis of +values. Like Stallman, I believe those are the values of freedom. And +like Stallman, I believe those are values of our past that will need +to be defended in our future. A free culture has been our past, but it +will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now. + Like Stallman's arguments for free software, an argument for free culture stumbles on a confusion that is hard to avoid, and even harder @@ -364,16 +363,14 @@ in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom. Anarchy is not what I advance here. -Instead, the free culture that I defend in this book is a balance - between -anarchy and control. A free culture, like a free market, is filled -with property. It is filled with rules of property and contract that get -enforced by the state. But just as a free market is perverted if its - property -becomes feudal, so too can a free culture be queered by extremism -in the property rights that define it. That is what I fear about our - culture -today. It is against that extremism that this book is written. +Instead, the free culture that I defend in this book is a balance +between anarchy and control. A free culture, like a free market, is +filled with property. It is filled with rules of property and contract +that get enforced by the state. But just as a free market is perverted +if its property becomes feudal, so too can a free culture be queered +by extremism in the property rights that define it. That is what I +fear about our culture today. It is against that extremism that this +book is written.