Free Culture in Audio!
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Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law professor and engineer of the Creative Commons has many good things to say. He wrote a great book, “Free Culture”. I wrote about it in a previous post. It was amazing! And now it can be read to you. The book and audio book file are free and unfettered by traditional copyright. So use your copy tool (computer) to make a copy of these. Not only is it legal, but it is encouraged!!
Other great Lessig productions. Free Culture the presentation (different from the book!) & Google Book Search (below) or download this great free speech/culture tool (micro bittorrent client) to download this torrent of the presentation and free yourself of the YouTube window.
On my way to Millions!
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My assault on the world begins now!
iPod for Hatch
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I read a recent article about the Senate hearings on the broadcast flag (Wikipedia, EFF). It seems that a connection was made for one of the Senators who had been given and iPod and was enjoying the functionality. When it was pointed out that he was in support of legislation that would cripple his new toy it gave him pause. Read up!
The events at the broadcast flag hearing prompted iPAC to start a campaign to educate Congress by sending them all iPods.
I’m interested in helping to educate. An email I sent iPAC:
To: info [at] ipaction.org
Subject: iPod donataion for specific SenatorAll,
I love the idea to send all the Senators iPods. Education is key! I would love
to educate my senator, Hatch, from UT. He seems to be particularly uneducated.
Is there anyway to earmark my money towards his iPod?Clark
Please join me by going to iPAC and pledging your monetary support!
Update! 2002.02.06 - 10:08 AM
From: Ren Bucholz
To: Clark Burbidge
Cc: info [at] ipaction.org
Subject: Re: iPod donataion for specific SenatorHi Clark,
Thanks for the complements! We’d love to help, but naming a specific
Senator triggers certain campaign finance laws that are a pain to deal
with. For example, we’d have to disburse the loaded, engraved iPod
within ten days of receiving the first contribution towards it. That’s
a really tight turnaround and a good deal more bookkeeping. So we have
to keep the recipient of each iPod a secret until we’ve raised enough
money to send it off.However, you’re welcome to buy Hatch an iPod on your own, then load it
with the contents of the ones we’re assembling. We’re planning to make
a tarball of that file available via BitTorrent.Hope that helps!
Best,
Ren
I’m pretty sure I don’t want to buy Hatch a whole iPod. But would if I had some help! Anyone for a backhanded campaign contribution? :)
