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March 25, 2004 8:43 PM - comments (6)

There's been a lot of noise about the formats for Free Culture -- or rather, the format. I'm a big believer in PDF, but the reason I've not posted more than PDF is just this -- I'm not a production company! Nor am I half as cool as Cory. But as I licensed CC under a CC-attribution-noncommercial license, anyone's free to make a derivative work of the PDF so long as not for commercial purposes. And if you send a link (or a file), I'd be happy (and grateful) to link to it from the Free Culture site.

Some have worried over the apparently conflicting text between the CC license and the copyright notice in the book. Please don't. We simply took the pdf of the book and wrapped it in a CC license. Indeed, a CC license is embedded in the PDF as well. That license is the writing that supersedes the licensing text.

Finally, I've gotten a bunch of emails from people saying there's a typo -- Lessing -- in the first chapter. No typo: There really is an author, Lawrence Lessing, who wrote the book I cite.

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Comments (6)

March 26, 2004 4:22 AM -C:

Larry I think you missed the point of your own book. Why don't you remove the Restrictive copyright from the download version of the book. "That's pretty easy"

By keeping this 'restrictive' copyright licensee in ,it's hard for normal non-lawyer folk to take the Creative Commons license or you seriously.

You should start practicing what you preach.

March 26, 2004 5:03 AM AKMA:

Page 27: “Is it not about the ‘centrality of technology’ to ordinary life.”

Did you mean, “it is not”?

March 26, 2004 6:34 AM mike:

I've made "Free Culture" available as a PostScript document.

I used GNU Ghostscript's pdf2ps.

The file is here: freeculture.ps.bz2.

It clocks in at about 8MB, compressed.

March 26, 2004 8:53 AM Jim Turner:

The book is great, PDF is a convenient format for me and thankyou!

March 26, 2004 12:59 PM Don:

It's a fabulous read so far - thanks and congratulations.

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