James Boyle’s new book under CC license
Posted December 5, 2008 · by David · in Reading, social networking
From the Center for the Study of the Public Domain, an announcement:
The Center for the Study of the Public Domain is delighted to announce the publication by Yale University Press of “THE PUBLIC DOMAIN: ENCLOSING THE COMMONS OF THE MIND//,” the new book by CSPD Faculty Co-Director James Boyle. Appropriately given the book’s theme, it is both for sale in hardback and available online for free under a Creative Commons license. To download the book or read it online, please visit http://www.thepublicdomain.org/
Not surprising that Boyle would do this; you may be interested though in his explanation/argument for doing so. Read the comments though to see what he thinks about distributed comment and annotation. This is basically what we’re talking about doing with lesson plans, right? His (admittedly brief) comment sounds like some things I’ve said, and it sounds like what the teachers at our user group meeting in April said.
The question is, are our lesson plans more like a scholarly book or more like a blog post?
