Free Culture (book)

Lawrence Lessig in front of a laptop labeled "free culture"

"I believe it would be right for
common sense
to revolt against the extreme claims made today on behalf of
"intellectual property.""

- Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture (2004)

Description

• A loosely defined reading group to study Lessig's Free Culture (book).
• One of the attractive aspects to studying this text on Wikiversity, is that the book itself is an exemplar of free culture, with many formats available and free culture licensing, allowing unlimited potential creativity with the book's contents.

Key terms / concepts

• Free culture movement
• Permission culture
• Remix culture

Formats

• Official website
• Quotes (Wikiquotes)
• External links (Wikipedia)
• <free culture> (Presentation)

See also

Related books

• FOSS: A general introduction (Wikibooks)

Related courses

• Composing free and open online educational resources

Participants

• Jtneill - Talk 11:35, 23 March 2008 (UTC)