Comments on: A derivative of Lessig’s work http://imaddicted.ca/intellectual-property/a-derivative-of-lessigs-work/ i'm always on Wed, 09 May 2012 05:05:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: hugh http://imaddicted.ca/intellectual-property/a-derivative-of-lessigs-work/comment-page-1/#comment-349 hugh Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:38:37 +0000 http://imaddicted.ca/?p=110#comment-349 wikipedia? soup kitchens? lending your neighbour a shovel (which he could buy at the hardware store)? cooking a dinner for your friends? happens all the time...the net just changed the scale of cooperation, and the scale of distribution (since giving away one is the same, more or less, as giving away a million). wikipedia? soup kitchens? lending your neighbour a shovel (which he could buy at the hardware store)? cooking a dinner for your friends? happens all the time…the net just changed the scale of cooperation, and the scale of distribution (since giving away one is the same, more or less, as giving away a million).

]]> By: lance http://imaddicted.ca/intellectual-property/a-derivative-of-lessigs-work/comment-page-1/#comment-348 lance Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:11:17 +0000 http://imaddicted.ca/?p=110#comment-348 Sort of similar. I think I was initially looking at it the wrong way. I can easily see why people volunteer for PG and LibriVox. I've proofread a bit for Project Gutenberg. It just took a while to think of another example where people have volunteered to work on a commercially available product. It hit me: open source. They're very different but now working for free (well, attribution) on something commercially available doesn't seem so weird. Sort of similar.

I think I was initially looking at it the wrong way. I can easily see why people volunteer for PG and LibriVox. I’ve proofread a bit for Project Gutenberg. It just took a while to think of another example where people have volunteered to work on a commercially available product.

It hit me: open source. They’re very different but now working for free (well, attribution) on something commercially available doesn’t seem so weird.

]]> By: hugh http://imaddicted.ca/intellectual-property/a-derivative-of-lessigs-work/comment-page-1/#comment-347 hugh Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:32:34 +0000 http://imaddicted.ca/?p=110#comment-347 i think volunteering time to make recordings is similar to the impulse that inspires you to volunteer your time to write this blog. i think volunteering time to make recordings is similar to the impulse that inspires you to volunteer your time to write this blog.

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