{"id":424,"date":"2008-01-16T18:08:45","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T16:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.veni.com\/?p=424"},"modified":"2008-01-16T18:08:45","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T16:08:45","slug":"the-future-of-ideas-is-now-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/?p=424","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Ideas is now Free!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend <a href=\"http:\/\/lessig.org\/info\/bio\/\">Larry Lessig<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/lessig.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/the_future_of_ideas_is_now_fre_1.html\">wrote<\/a> yesterday that after a productive and valuable conversation with his publisher, Random House, they&#8217;ve agreed to permit <strong>The Future of Ideas<\/strong> to be licensed under a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/\">Creative Commons<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/3.0\/us\/\"><em>Attribution-Noncommercial<\/em><\/a> license. You can download the book for free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-future-of-ideas.com\/download\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great news for the writers&#8217; community. I hope that other writers will follow.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Disclaimer: I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/veni.com\/venko.html\">released<\/a> one of my Grandfather&#8217;s books, published in Bulgarian &#8211; Blood is Thicker Than Water &#8211; under Creative Commons, as well, and I am working on digitalizing my Father&#8217;s books to be released perhaps next year, in connection with his 70th anniversary (he died in a car accident when he was 36).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Larry Lessig wrote yesterday that after a productive and valuable conversation with his publisher, Random House, they&#8217;ve agreed to permit The Future of Ideas to be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license. You can download the book &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/?p=424\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}