Intellectual Property Law

Larry Lessig practises what he preaches

Lawrence Lessig, US lawyer and founder of Creative Commons, has secured the release his 2001 book The Future of Ideas under a Creative Commons licence. The licence in question is Attribution Noncommercial (US law). To achieve this, his publishers Random House had to agree to the move.

Announcing the development on his blog earlier this week, Lessig said:

"Thanks to Random House (and Basic Books, and Penguin) for being open to this experiment. I hope we'll have some useful data to report about its effect."

This means that all of Lessig's books are now available online free of charge under Creative Commons licences. No doubt Chris Anderson on The Long Tail will have something to say about this connects with his FREE theory.

Thanks to the MobileRead Networks blog for spotting this.

Full post as published by IMPACT on January 17, 2008 (boomark / email).