Lessig releases Free Culture under CC license

Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig has released his new book, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, for free under a Creative Commons license. This means you can download and read the book without paying a penny.

Of course, you can still buy a Cory Doctorow, who has released three books in this fashion. For Doctorow, the experiment has been a success. Having the free downloads available appears to have helped, not hindered, sales of the book’s physical copies, by encouraging word-of-mouth recommendations and allowing readers to try before they buy.

[via Boing Boing]