Friday, December 15, 2006
Stanford prof Lawrence Lessig has updated his book "Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace" under the title "Code v2," with the help of an online community collaborating through Wiki software.
The end result is a text licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike form of copyright -- which means Lessig is making the text available for free downloading as a PDF file or through the original Wiki.
If you get tired of toting your laptop around to read the book, you can even buy a printed version for $15 or so.
Lessig was the keynote speaker for last year's AEJMC conference in San Francisco, warning that overly-restrictive intellectual property laws stifle creativity and create a "read-only" culture.
According to the "about" page for the book:
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The end result is a text licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike form of copyright -- which means Lessig is making the text available for free downloading as a PDF file or through the original Wiki.
If you get tired of toting your laptop around to read the book, you can even buy a printed version for $15 or so.
Lessig was the keynote speaker for last year's AEJMC conference in San Francisco, warning that overly-restrictive intellectual property laws stifle creativity and create a "read-only" culture.
According to the "about" page for the book:
"While Lessig himself has strong views about preserving important
liberties that cyberspace originally protected, this book does
not push any particular set of values. Unlike Lessig's other
books, The Future
of Ideas, and Free
Culture, this book has no particular political agenda.
Instead, the objective of Code v1 and Code v2 is to introduce and defend a
particular way of understanding regulation, and to describe the
trend that we should expect regulation in cyberspace to take."
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