[Imc-communication] Response to Questions/Concerns About Indy Book Project

[GarconDuMonde]

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hi chris, susan, john et al,

Susan wrote:
> Alster and others had this concern:
> 
> "Generally, if I was to choose, I would prefer books on Indymedia being
> produced on more open terms. Terms providing the editors the opportunity
> to retain copyright and the ability to republish the book contents both
> under an open license, and for free. To all of those who cannot pay even
> the reduced price as this would still equal their daily or weekly income,
> this would be the only way to gain access to such books, too.
> 
> My interpretation of what you wrote on the legal terms makes me think
> that, for this book, (re-)publishing its contents in terms of an open
> license (for money or not) or for free (under an open or proprietary
> license) will both not be possible."
> 
> Actually it WOULD be possible. The word we finally got back from the
> publisher is that all the individual submissions to the book would be
> "open source" -- he didn't use those words, but that is basically what he
> meant. Individual contributors would be free to repost and re-use their
> contributions wherever they wanted, in any language they wanted. And put
> them up on the internet. The one thing folks could not do would be to
> distribute the entire book AS A WHOLE as a pdf or something like that. But
> the individual contributions would be open source.

i have to query this. there are actually a number of examples of books that i've
seen that have been printed AND distributed under some kind of creative commons
license - "free culture," by lawrence lessig being an example that i've read in
hard copy [0] - some of which are available via the cc website [1] and others
via ibiblio or other such websites. i would have thought that indymedia is a
network that would ensure all media we produce is available for free, maybe
under something like the cc attribution-sharealike-(noncommercial optional) or
even public domain licenses.

i would very much like to see the pdf of the entire book freely available on the
web. after all, it's actually pretty costly to print off the whole thing, but
people can get the tasters they desire, etc.

> Toya also asked: "How much it will be the cost of the book for the people
> from the third world countries..." we still need to check with Disinfo
> about this...publication rights in other countries, translation rights,
> etc. But we'll keep people posted. And honestly, you may know more than
> they do about available options, so it would be nice to hear your
> thoughts.

again, having a pdf available would enable people to get printing done locally,
perhaps allowing groups in south america, australia or wherever else (postage
costs may be exorbitant!) to print copies themselves at local, cost prices.

> Finally, here is the original proposal link as sent to the imc-comm list:
> http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-communication/2006-June/0603-0l.html

i leave the link in for reference. here are the others:

[0] http://www.free-culture.cc/
[1] http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Books
[2] http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch


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