The most interesting news I’ve heard lately on the topic of custom publishing came last month from Mashable.com. As Jolie O’Dell reports, you can now create and print a custom book using content from Wikipedia. Just click “Create a book” in Wikipedia’s left sidebar (under “print/export”), and then click “Start book creator.” The video below [...]
Posts Tagged ‘creative commons’
The Philosophy of Remix Culture
On Saturday, March 28, 2009, the Ann Arbor Film Festival hosted the second public screening of RiP: A Remix Manifesto, a new documentary by Canadian filmmaker Brett Gaylor. Normally I’d put the video trailer at the end, but for those of you who haven’t seen it (or who aren’t familiar with these issues), I’d like [...]
Copyleftism
It’s time that I got into more modern publications and topics. Lawrence Lessig is a Stanford Law professor and a popular blogger. He helped found Creative Commons, which affords creators partial protection on their work in a way that will encourage further creativity and progress. He wrote a book entitled Free Culture: The Nature and [...]
