The Creative Commons Book
Above is a .jpg of page 4 of Lawrence Lessig's The Future of Ideas. Notice the red strikeout. That's not a Photoshop'd line. Lessig has convinced Random House to license the book under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license. This is not an old in public domain piece. It was published in late 2001.
You can read Lessig's blog post about the news and download the book in .pdf here. I just did.
And a little background on Lessig. He's the founder of Creative Commons and a board member of Electronic Frontier Foundation. By day, he's a professor of law at Stanford Law School where he's the founder of the school's Cyberlaw Program. Very interesting.
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January 16th, 2008 @ 1:00 pm
check out the yochai benkler book on my shelf — the wealth of networks, also published under creative commons.
January 17th, 2008 @ 1:39 am
Here's an interesting fact about Lessig. Being that he's a lawyer and the founder of Creative Commons, you'd think that he'd know his shit about copyright laws surrounding photography. Well that fucker stole a photo from my website 2 years ago and put it in a .pdf which he then distributed on his website. And then he claimed that he didn't see the copyright on the photo that he stole from my website without asking permission. Lovely, eh? If you search on Google for andipantz and Lessig, you'll find a whole bit about it. The fucker.