Nina Paley
The cutting edge of free expression has been open software. Nina has comic strips with a free license, but can't get a publishing house that won't pick it up. For technical and educational books it is possible, but not for anything else. She's going to release a film under the Creative Commons Share Alike.
Free culture <> communism
Free culture = Free Enterprise + Free Markets
Content is Free. People think they should get content free because it is free (internet).
Containers are not free (books, CD, computer)
Think of bottled water. Water is free, but bottled water is a service where companies offer us a convenience. They put their seal of approval on it and we pay for it.
Copyright is like a dam. Stagnant water becomes poisoned
Businesses that are going to succeed are going to get out of licensing and get into servicing.
Jonathan Coulton is a good example of a musician who understands this.
Producing Open Source Software is a book that's free online (Question Copyright.org) and sold physical via O'Reilly
The printed book = the tree ware
All open content for eBooks is just text, but cartoons would work great there, but there are no Open Source Coffee Table Books because there's a culture against it.
Free culture = Free enterprise
Free software makes money and so can free culture
If people like the thing, they want tokens from the thing
Publisher's offer an author endorsement mark and that's valuable. Signed and limited editions can also bring in money.
Giving stuff away actually works
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