Scott Spanbauer, No-guilt downloads: free books, music and movies, PC Advisor, October 19, 2004. Excerpt: "A few brave musicians...post free copies of their albums online and allow people to record and distribute their concerts for free. In most cases, the creators retain copyright to the books or recordings, but they permit fans to make copies for their own use. Many other works – books, music and films – are in the public domain. This means that you can download them, upload them, package and even sell them. The Internet Archive pulls together several long-standing, independent electronic book libraries, including the Million Book Project and Project Gutenberg, which account for more than 20,000 free books between them. Ibiblio.org's Ebooks collection features, among other things, technical and historical works, and the Digital Book Index lists 90,000 titles, of which more than 50,000 are free....Most e-books reside in the public domain, though a small number of contemporary volumes have been released by their authors under the Creative Commons license. For an explanation of how this license works, visit www.creativecommons.org or read Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig's free (of course) 2004 book Free Culture."
Posted by
Peter Suber at 10/22/2004 07:59:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
