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Common Cause: Information Between Commons and Property

Posted in Copyright/left, Free Software, Network society by Niklas Vainio on the September 1st, 2005. Tags: , , ,

From the Creative Commons blog:

A new book by author Phillipe Aigrain - “Cause commune : l’information entre bien commun et propriété” (or, in English, “Common Cause: Information Between Commons and Property”) has been released online in French under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. Selected extracts in English are also available online. Editions Fayard may be one of the first major mainstream French-speaking publishers to facilitate Creative Commons licenses. Let’s hope it serves as an example to open up more French-speaking (and other) content by mainstream publishers for freedom of use.

The book looks like an interesting foray into the politics of the “information age”. I wish somebody will translate it. Unfortunately, translations are forbidden by the license.

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  1. Philippe Aigrain said, on September 4th, 2005 at 18:59

    Thanks for blogging the book. Though the license does not permit translations, people wishing to produce a translation can contact me (http://www.causecommune.org/site/contact) and I will try to facilitate access to translations rights from the publisher.

    Philippe Aigrain

  2. Tere said, on September 6th, 2005 at 14:16

    A truly interesting first chapter, very revealing level of abstraction in the analysis … Let’s hope we get the translation soon!