Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 16:44:26 +0530
From: Subbiah Arunachalam
Friends, in particular Sathya:
Please see this news item from Peter Suber's blog:
More on Lessig's Free Culture Give It Away and They'll Buy It
<http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2004/julaug/farm/news/lessig.ht
ml>, Stanford Magazine, July/August 2004. On Lawrence Lessig's new book,
Free Culture, which is available in both open-access
http://www.free-culture.cc/ and priced/printed
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1594200068/qid=1091586887/sr=
1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-2808347-4161631?v=glance&s=books> editions. Excerpt:
"You can pay $25 for Lawrence Lessig's new book. Or you can download it
for free. What's the catch? None, according to Lessig, a law professor who
specializes in intellectual property and is the author of Free Culture:
How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control
Creativity. A memo Lessig wrote to his publisher convinced Penguin Books
that releasing Free Culture online actually would increase sales of
hardcove copies. Which may be true: there have been more than 180,000
downloads --and Penguin is on its third printing."
Subbiah Arunachalam
Distinguished Fellow
M S Swaminathan Research Foundation
Tel: +91-44-5528 4776, 2254 1229, 2254 2791
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