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Free Culture links

05/18/04 | by [mail] | Categories: culture/news

If you're interested in learning some more about culture and copyright issues, here are some links:

Free Culture
This is the web site for the book. If you want to download it or buy it, start here.

Lessig Blog
Lawrence Lessig's blog. He's a law professor at Stanford and a graduate of Cambridge and Yale. His blog can keep you informed.

Public Library of Science
This is a project Lessig has worked with. It's a solution to the problem of the high cost of scientific journals, which makes it hard for libraries to offer journals for free. Scientists can upload articles, which are peer reviewed and then offered to the public for free.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
"A nonprofit group of passionate people--lawyers, volunteers and visionaries--working to protect your digital rights." You can find links about lots of legal issues here.

Creative Commons
"Some rights reserved." An alternative license that creators can use to give more rights to their readers. I'm going to look into choosing a CC license for this blog.

Free Software Foundation
The home of the GNU project, which gave us Linux and lots of other open source software. Their huge philosophy page can explain why this is so important to them.

Internet Archive
This is my favorite. It's a project to record as much information as is legally and technically possible. It includes the Wayback Machine (enter an address and see how what a site used to say) and a great audio section. I downloaded an entire live show from Waterdeep.

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3 comments

It’s not updated enough, but you can add chillingeffects.org to the list. One of the main things they do is collect cease and desist letters people have received and decided to share.


Brendon [Visitor]http://www.techfreak.net05/19/04 @ 01:53

What’s not updated enough?


Danny [Visitor]http://danny.brendoman.com05/19/04 @ 10:24

Chillingeffects.org isn’t updated enough. It turns off visitors when they go to a website that has sidebar feed links from 8 months ago. Make it seem irrelevant.


Brendon [Visitor]http://www.techfreak.net05/19/04 @ 12:31


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