10 years of Free Culture

RuthieG · Post by **RuthieG** » March 26th, 2014, 10:47 am

10 years ago yesterday Laurence Lessig released his seminal book Free Culture free online, under a Creative Commons license. Read it here.

Shortly afterwards, AKMA was inspired to "crowd-source" an audio version, which you can listen to here.

Ultimately, these happenings were the inspiration for Hugh McGuire's idea of LibriVox, which commenced operations a little over a year later.

Ruth

DrewJ · Post by **DrewJ** » March 26th, 2014, 12:32 pm

Hugh has created a wonderful resource, but at the same time has made Librivox the most addictive thing online.

(Excuse me while I go refresh to see if there are any updates.)

Carolin · Post by **Carolin** » March 27th, 2014, 5:55 am

RuthieG wrote:Ultimately, these happenings were the inspiration for Hugh McGuire's idea of LibriVox, which commenced operations a little over a year later.

i didnt know that! interesting to see the inspiration that started librivox