In case you haven’t heard of it, Project Gutenberg and its affiliated sites feature more than 100,000 free books in 55 languages, all free for download. They’re all in the public domain — either because their authors have been dead for more than 50 years, because their U.S. copyrights have expired, or because they […]
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read a book
May 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: books · copyright · neato
new nine inch nails album free to download
May 6th, 2008 · No Comments
Unlike Radiohead’s “In Rainbows” experiment, which allowed downloaders to pay what they wanted, NIN’s site doesn’t have so much as a tipjar option for it’s new record: The Slip. All you need is a valid e-mail address and you can download the album for free. No catch, apparently.
From NIN.com:
as a thank you to […]
Tags: copyright · music · neato
“‘intellectual property’ is a silly euphemism”
February 25th, 2008 · No Comments
Cory Doctorow is a columnist, boingboing.net contributor and all-around superhero, and his latest Guardian piece on intellectual property makes a lot of sense. In it, he argues that “if we’re going to achieve a lasting peace in the knowledge wars, it’s time to set property aside, time to start recognising that knowledge - valuable, […]
