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mdlbearFree Culture and DRM (Lessig Blog)
Hard copies of Coffee, Computers, and Song! are, of course, available from CD Baby and you are, of course, free to rip your copy and share it with your friends. Tell them where you got it.
Ben Jones has a piece about my book, Free Culture, being made available on Kindle, a platform that uses DRM.Speaking as a singer-songwriter with CC-licensed works available both freely and via DRM-encumbered media such as iTunes, I must say I agree.
In my view, the "free culture" test for a work is whether it is available freely -- not whether it is also available not freely. "Free Culture" is available freely -- meaning, it is licensed freely here. One can put that freely licensed version on a Kindle, freely. I hadn't known my publisher was going to make Free Culture available on the Kindle, but now that they have, I'd be very keen to have a version I can make freely available on the "Free Culture" remix page.
Hard copies of Coffee, Computers, and Song! are, of course, available from CD Baby and you are, of course, free to rip your copy and share it with your friends. Tell them where you got it.
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Date: 2008-09-30 06:27 pm (UTC)I won't/don't/can't use iTunes, so had no way to check. (Strictly speaking, I could set it up on my work laptop, but *really* don't want to.)
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Date: 2008-09-30 08:04 pm (UTC)iTunes also very often reminds you to back up your collection. Good advice no matter who it's from. Almost everything I've seen there lately is DRM free.
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