{"id":9,"date":"2011-07-27T11:32:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T11:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/books\/copyrightandleft\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2015-12-30T12:44:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T12:44:13","slug":"making-of-the-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/copyrightandleft\/the-book\/making-of-the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Making of the Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

Am glad to announce that my book on Creative Commons titled \u2018Copy Right and Left<\/a>\u2018 will be launched on July 20th. \u00a0You can learn more about the book here\u00a0http:\/\/www.CopyRightandLeft.org<\/a> .<\/p>\n

Creative Commons has been an area of deep interest for me and I totally love the concept and the spirit behind it. \u00a0It was a satisfying experience putting together the book. More importantly, this book was an excuse for me to push myself to understand the subject better.<\/p>\n

This book is a non-commercial venture. Making money is the last thing on my mind. I really hope to bring together a short, easy to read book that explains to a layman what Creative Commons is.<\/p>\n

The entire contents of the book is available online for everyone to read. In-fact, the entire book is written openly on a\u00a0Wiki<\/a><\/strong>. While we were working on the book we would publish each chapter as and when it was finished. \u00a0I wanted to make sure that I used the most transparent and most collaborative method to write this book.<\/p>\n

The book will also come out as a dead-wood version and will be available for purchase at Rs.99. This is more to cover the printing and distribution cost.<\/p>\n

So, how did this book come about? Oh, its a long story. Got the time?<\/p>\n

It was in late 2002 that I had first heard of the term creative\u00a0commons. Honestly, it hadn\u2019t captured my attention until the middle of\u00a02003, when over a million licensed were issued. That was when I sat up\u00a0to take notice. I started to read more about it in detail and took a\u00a0strong liking to it\u2019s concept of promoting creativity through sharing.<\/p>\n

I was highly impresses with\u00a0Lawrence Lessig<\/a>, the\u00a0founder of Creative Commons and how just by his sheer conviction was\u00a0able to make CC into a very respectable organisation. It was the\u00a0meeting with him and\u00a0Joi Ito<\/a> (who later succeeded Lessig as CEO \u00a0and is now the Director of MIT Media Lab) at\u00a0iCommons Summits in 2007 at\u00a0Dubrovnik, Croatia<\/a> and in 2008 at\u00a0Sapporo, Japan<\/a> that made\u00a0a lasting impression on me.<\/p>\n

Much to my dismay though, a lot of us in India were ignorant about Creative Commons (CC)\u00a0and it\u2019s advantages. I felt it would be useful to have an easy to read\u00a0book that explains CC with relevant examples. This was a 4 year wish that\u00a0finally materialised with this attempt now.<\/p>\n

I wanted to walk the talk\u00a0and use the very concept of Creative Commons in the book writing process. \u00a0I\u2019ve generously used many of the contributions from people who have shared their experience and knowledge under the CC license themselves. \u00a0Many of the contents of the book are taken from the Creative Commons website itself, particularly encouraged by the staff at Creative Commons headquarters. \u00a0We have duly credited everyone whose work has been used in this book.<\/p>\n

The book itself is licensed under the\u00a0most liberal<\/a> creative commons license. This means that anyone is free to use this book and build on top of it. Anyone can freely distribute it or even use it commercially if they wish (with no obligation to share the revenues).<\/p>\n

Its at this time that I should really appreciate the hard work and dedication of 3 of my\u00a0research colleagues<\/a>, \u00a0Watson Solomon, \u00a0Sushmitha and Preethi. \u00a0Thank you fellas.<\/p>\n

The preparations for the July 20 launch have begun. Will update you with more information on that soon. Meanwhile, please mark your calendars. It would be awesome if you can join in body (preferably!<\/em>) or spirit!<\/p>\n

– Kiruba Shankar and the Research Team<\/p>\n

– Click to view the Book Cover<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Am glad to announce that my book on Creative Commons titled \u2018Copy Right and Left\u2018 will be launched on July 20th. \u00a0You can learn more about the book here\u00a0http:\/\/www.CopyRightandLeft.org . Creative Commons has been an area of deep interest for me and I totally love the concept and the spirit behind it. \u00a0It was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/copyrightandleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/copyrightandleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/copyrightandleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/copyrightandleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/copyrightandleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/copyrightandleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/copyrightandleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/copyrightandleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}