{"id":98,"date":"2005-03-16T15:00:40","date_gmt":"2005-03-16T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=98"},"modified":"2005-03-16T15:00:40","modified_gmt":"2005-03-16T15:00:40","slug":"a_book_by_lawrence_lessig_and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/16\/a_book_by_lawrence_lessig_and\/","title":{"rendered":"a book by Lawrence Lessig and you"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lawrence Lessig is inviting everyone to help revise and update his landmark 1999 book Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace<\/a> on a public wiki<\/a>, as a way of drawing “upon the creativity and knowledge of the community.” (story in Mercury News<\/a>)
\nFrom the site: “This is an online, collaborative book update; a first of its kind. Once the the project nears completion, Professor Lessig will take the contents of this wiki and ready it for publication. The
\nresulting book, Code v.2, will be published in late 2005 by Basic Books. All royalties, including the book advance, will be donated to Creative Commons.”<\/i>
\nAs an experiment with networked books, this has a couple of big things going for it. For one, it is a pre-existent work with a large reader community. Like a stone tossed in the water, it creates ripples. Version 2 might benefit by incorporating these ripples. Secondly, Lessig will retain ultimate editorial authority, so we can be pretty sure that the final revision will be focused and well-shaped. And lastly, Lessig’s subject is so vast, so multi-dimensional, that the book will almost certainly benefit from broad reader\/writer input. And for someone like Lessig, who is as much an activist as a scholar, constantly running around the world spreading his ideas, it is a nice way of asking for assistance in the time-consuming process of updating of a book that the world needs sooner rather than later.
\nIncidentally, Lessig will be appearing on April 7 at the New York Public Library with Wilco<\/a> frontman Jeff Tweedy to discuss the question, “Who Owns Culture?”<\/a> moderated by Steven Johnson<\/a>. (thanks, NEWSgrist<\/a>)
\nTweedy says: “A piece of art is not a loaf of bread. When someone steals a loaf of bread from the store, that’s it. The loaf of bread is gone. When someone downloads a piece of music, it’s just data until the listener puts that music back together with their own ears, their mind, their subjective
\nexperience.”<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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