I'm a little confused by your question, are you asking if you can do these things to Free Culture (Lessig's book) *if it were any different* as in *if it were licensed *differently?
Or are you asking them about books in general? In the former case, you should know that Lessig has released Free Culture under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/ Which means you can do what you want with it (including excerpt, etc.) so long as you give him attribution and so long as you don't use it commercially. As for the latter, you should investigate Fair Use ... Wikipedia is a good place to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Use Best, Fred On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Venkatesh Srinivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I just finished reading 'Free Culture' this morning and had a few > thoughts and questions on it. > > Lets imagine FC were like any other book and I wanted to write a > commentary on it. A commentary where I blockquote a lot, take Lessig's > arguments chapter-by-chapter, para-by-para, and make notes or criticisms > on them. And then I want to publish this commentary. > > Would I have to ask permission from the rights-holder? > > Does it say something that there would a question? > > --vs > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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