Here's one involving this site. I first learned here that Laurence Lessig's "Free Culture", as you know an attack on what Congress is doing with the copyright law, is available free in a variety of formats. Yesterday, on another site (I can't remember which) someone wrote about not being able to find it in PalmReader format. This morning I see on the Palmdigital site that it is now available in that format, but you must pay for it. Two minutes later I see that it is available for free in that format at Memoware. Lessig and his publisher (Penguin) made this text available for free, though not in PalmReader format. Now someone has so encoded it: what will you argue, that Palmdigital can stop Memoware from distributing it? Philippe Radley
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