Literary Outlaws discussion

I just finished reading the book Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity by Lawrence Lessig. I thought it was a very interesting book; it provided lots of information about the history and evolution of copyright laws, the expanding definition of [intellectual] property, and the need to find a balance between the rights of existing creators/copyright holders and the right of the public to create new things.

Good book. If you are a bit on the conspiracy side,have a look at the following video: http://video.google.ca/videoplay?doci...

There is also a book by the same name. Where I am sharing the parallel is the control part and the degradation of creativity.

I am an advocate of the GPL and Linux. To me creativity is an expression and to me it is about choice and the freedom of choice.

That looks pretty rad. What was the name of the book on hackers which was for entry-level people into the 'movement' whose author was interviewed on Linux Outlaws? That British activist woman...

Evropi wrote: "That looks pretty rad. What was the name of the book on hackers which was for entry-level people into the 'movement' whose author was interviewed on Linux Outlaws? That British activist woman..."

Are you thinking about Becky Hogge and her book Barefoot into Cyberspace: Adventures in search of techno-Utopia?

Apart from either chapter 3 or 4, I really liked that book!

The obvious book that fits the group's title is

Literary Outlaw - The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs

Here the Amazon page:

http://www.amazon.com/Literary-Outlaw...

Hey, Fab:

Based on what you said in the podcast, it sounds like the name was an unintentional coincidence so I thought you'd like to be made aware of it since Burroughs is a fairly controversial figure.

BTW, for anyone interested in reading Burroughs, I'd suggest that you first listen to some of his spoken word recordings. Reading Burroughs is a lot easier once you have his voice and cadence implanted in your brain.

Here's a spoken word recording of one of his most famous excepts from Naked Lunch (NSFW):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ-p1w...