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The Future of Ideas is now CC Licensed

Rebecca Lendl

Rebecca Lendl

January 16, 2008

Lawrence Lessig, our CEO, just announced that his book The Future of Ideas is now licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license. With this news, all of Lessig’s books are now freely licensed. Accolades to Random House, the publisher, for taking the brave and exciting step of sharing this work with the commons.

Read more about it on the Lessig blog or download the book for free.

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