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Free Culture is a book by Lawrence Lessig, the official homepage can be found at http://www.free-culture.cc/. The book can be bought in bookstores but also downloaded in many different forms from the Internet. All this because Mr. Lessig has released the book under a Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/) license that permits derviative works (such as this audio book) as long as credit is given to the original author.
The initiative to make this audio version was originally taken by AKMA at his blog over at http://akma.disseminary.org/archives/001253.html and since it has been refined by Scott Matthews at http://www.turnstyle.org/FreeCulture/ This downloadable version was assembled by Noa Resare and is accessible from http://resare.com/fc/
This version of the book is released under the same license as the original book available from http://free-culture.cc/. The exact wording can be found in the file license.html and at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/1.0/ but in short works like this:
You are free:
Under the following conditions:
Please feel free to share this content with your friends using the technology of your choice. If you would like to share the content on a Peer2Peer network, please share the unpacked directory of mp3 files in its original directory. The naming helps interested downloaders to identify the files. Your directory structure should look something like this:
Lawrence_Lessig__Free_Culture__AudioBook__v1.0/ Free_Culture_001_Preface.mp3 Free_Culture_002_Introduction.mp3 Free_Culture_01_Creators.mp3 ... Free_Culture_16_Afterword.mp3 license.html readme.txt
The first and biggest credit goes to Prof. Lawrence Lessig for writing a fantastic book and making it freely available.
Secondly I would like to credit A. K. M. Adam for coming up with the idea of making an audio book and coordinating the different contributed chapters.
Thirdly I would like to credit Scott Matthews for making the excellenet audio book popup at http://www.turnstyle.org/FreeCulture/ that I used for this distribution.
At last I would like to thank all the people that have read chapters of the book. Here is the list of voices you will heaar. For more information about the readers, please have a look at http://www.turnstyle.org/FreeCulture/.
Preface (5:14)
Read by Kevin Marks (http://epeus.blogspot.com/)
Introduction (25:45)
Read by Ralph Levien (http://www.levien.com/)
Chapter 1: Creators (17:44)
Read by Doug Kaye (http://www.itconversations.com/)
Chapter 2: Mere Copyists (30:44)
Read by AJ Wright (http://toadking.org/blog/)
Chapter 3: Catalogs (10:22)
Read by Victoria Wright (http://www.ninjawife.com/blog/)
Chapter 4: Pirates (17:14)
Read by Eric Rice (http://www.ericrice.com/)
Chapter 5: Piracy (45:42)
Read by A. K. M. Adam (http://akma.disseminary.org/)
Chapter 6: Founders (29:14)
Read by Adam Brault (http://www.mathcaddy.com/)
Chapter 7: Recorders (9:14)
Read by Michael Shook (http://talkabout.editthispage.com/)
Chapter 8: Transformers (14:42)
Read by Suw Charman (http://chocnvodka.blog-city.com/)
Chapter 9: Collectors (14:15)
Read by Tara Liloia (http://www.liloia.com/)
Chapter 10: Property (109:48)
Read by Scott Fiddelke
Chapter 11: Chimera (10:55)
Read by Dave Winer (http://www.scripting.com/)
Chapter 12: Harms (53:51)
Read by Dave Winer (http://www.scripting.com/)
Chapter 13: Eldred (83:10)
Read by George Sessum (http://musick.blogspot.com/)
Chapter 14: Eldred II (17:14)
Read by David Weinberger (http://www.evident.com/)
Chapter 15: Conclusion (28:51)
Read by Enoch Choi (http://www.enochchoi.com/thoughts/)
Chapter 16: Afterword (58:20)
Read by Tim Samoff (http://www.sense-datum.org/tim/)
If you have any questions or comments about this distribution, please don't hesitate to contact me, Noa Resare at noa@resare.com. The latest version of this distribution will be made available from http://resare.com/fc/