[Solar-general] In Praise of Copying, CC-licensed book from Harvard Uni Press

Lun Oct 25 15:20:22 CEST 2010

Title: In Praise of Copying, CC-licensed book from Harvard Uni Press
Author: Cory Doctorow
Date: sÃ¡b, 23 oct 2010 13:34:19 -0300
Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/y75OB5D4cAk/in-praise-of-copying.html

Pidg sez, "Harvard University Press have released author Marcus Boon's new 
book, In Praise of Copying[1], under a Creative Commons license - and decided 
to release the full text as a free PDF." 

  [image 2]"Given the topic and stance of In Praise of Copying, I wanted the 
  text to participate openly in the circulation of copies that we see 
  flourishing all around us. I approached Harvard to discuss options and they 
  agreed to make the book available as a PDF online. The PDF is freely 
  available to anyone who wants to download it, but it does come with a 
  creative commons license that sets some intelligent restrictions on what you 
  can do with it. Although generosity is a wonderful thing, this isn't 
  especially intended as a utopian gesture towards a world in which everything 
  is free. It's recognition of the way in which copies of texts circulate 
  today, a circulation in which the physical object known as the book that is 
  for sale in the marketplace has an important but hardly exclusive role. A PDF
  of a book is not an illegitimate copy of a legitimate original but 
  participates in other kinds of circulation that have long flourished around 
  the book-commodity: the library book; the photocopy or hand-written copy; the
  book browsed, borrowed or shared. We all know these modes of circulation 
  exist, as they continue to do today with online text archives. 

  Perhaps these online archives just make visible and more "at hand" something 
  that was happening invisibly, more distantly, but continuously before. At the
  same time, something new is going on. The physical book today is one copy, 
  one iteration of a text among others. What that means for publishers, 
  writers, readers and other interested parties is something that we are 
  working out - on this webpage and elsewhere." --Marcus Boon 

In Praise of Copying[3]

Download PDF[4]

(Thanks, Pidg, via Submitterator[5]) 

  * Major Canadian copyright text is now a free download[6]
  * Copyright's Paradox: brilliantly argued scholarly book tackles ...[7]
  * Comic book brilliantly explains copyright for ...[8]
  * History of piracy, reviewed by EFF's senior copyright lawyer ...[9]
  * Patry's MORAL PANICS AND THE COPYRIGHT WARS: elegant, calm ...[10]
  * Bound By Law: the "Understanding Comics" of copyright, in a new ...[11]

Links: 
[1]: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0674047834/downandoutint-20 (link)
[2]: http://craphound.com/images/inpraiseofcopying.jpeg (image)
[3]: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/features/boon/ (link)
[4]: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/features/boon/Boon_text_final.pdf (link)
[5]: http://boingboing.net/submit (link)
[6]: http://boingboing.net/2010/10/14/major-canadian-copyr.html#previouspost (link)
[7]: http://boingboing.net/2008/09/18/copyrights-paradox-b.html#previouspost (link)
[8]: http://boingboing.net/2006/02/03/comic_book_brilliant.html#previouspost (link)
[9]: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/05/30/history-of-piracy-re.html#previouspost (link)
[10]: http://boingboing.net/2009/09/14/patrys-moral-panics.html#previouspost (link)
[11]: http://boingboing.net/2008/10/24/bound-by-law-the-und.html#previouspost (link)

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