lib-ir: Fwd: diglib: digital books: what's new

[Carol Hixson <chixson@darkwing.uoregon.edu>]

Part of a message by Bob Felsing of possible interest
to this group.

Carol


>Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 12:59:53 -0800
>To: diglib@lists.uoregon.edu
>From: Robert Felsing <felsing@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>
>Subject: diglib: digital books:  what's new
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>1) The following might be interest  -- if you are interested in what's 
>happening with ebooks.  The following book is available for free under a 
>Creative Commons license.  Or if you prefer to spend money, you can buy it 
>in paper (as soon as the Bookstore gets it --- the pub date for this book 
>is March, 2004).  You probably know that Lawrence Lessing argued on behalf 
>of the public domain before the Supreme Court (and lost).  Lessing (who is 
>a law prof at Stanford) is a popular author and prominent defender of 
>public access.  His model is a good one for all faculty to follow --- 
>particularly since Lessing's books actually *make money*.
>    * <http://www.free-culture.cc/freecontent/>Free Culture: How Big Media 
> Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity 
> (New York: Penguin Press, 2004), by Lawrence Lessing (available in a 
> multitude of formats  ---but we'll put it on e-Asia as a .pdf)
>
>Regards,
>Bob Felsing