{"id":1196,"date":"2008-07-08T00:02:33","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T04:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2008-07-08T00:02:33","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T04:02:33","slug":"free-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/07\/08\/free-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just stumbled across a book called Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig<\/a>. It’s about copyright – but also about a lot more than just copyright. It’s a freely available e-book (gotta love Creative Commons licensing<\/a>), so please do\u00a0 download the book and give it a read – I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n

You may just change your mind about copyright after reading this book – and that’s a good thing<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just stumbled across a book called Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig. It’s about copyright – but also about a lot more than just copyright. It’s a freely available e-book (gotta love Creative Commons licensing), so please do\u00a0 download the book and give it a read – I highly recommend it. You may just change… Continue reading Free Culture<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[125,111,89,385],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society","category-technology","tag-copyright","tag-drm","tag-law","tag-politics","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-ji","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4200,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2013\/03\/21\/copyright-gone-copywrong\/","url_meta":{"origin":1196,"position":0},"title":"How Copyright Has Gone Copywrong","author":"Keith Survell","date":"March 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Yep, that's right - I'm talking about copyright again. 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