Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 16:44:26 +0530 From: Subbiah Arunachalam <arun@mssrf.res.in> 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 Fax:+91-44-2254 1319