FREESOULS: Captured and Released by Joi Ito is a book by Joi Ito featuring 296 photographic portraits of members of the free culture movement. The project began in 2007 as way for Ito to freely distribute, through a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY), quality photos of the free culture community without the hindrance of copyright or permission.[1][2] Freesouls also includes eight essays by major figures in the free culture movement, including Howard Rheingold, Lawrence Liang, Cory Doctorow, Isaac Mao, Christopher Adams, Yochai Benkler, Marko Ahtisaari, and a foreword by Lawrence Lessig. Isaac Mao's essay, "Sharism: A Mind Revolution", introduces Sharism for the first time.
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| Author | Joi Ito |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Freesouls.cc |
Publication date | 2008 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback |
| Pages | 200 |
| ISBN | 0982029128 |
The book was published in three editions, as a box set in an edition of 50, a soft-cover book in a print run of 1024, and a regular release.[3] It was edited by Christopher Adams and Sophie Chang.
Essay content
edit- Lawrence Lessig: Foreword by Lawrence Lessig
- Christopher Adams: Share this book
- Joi Ito: Just another free soul
- Howard Rheingold: Participative Pedagogy for a Literacy of Literacies
- Lawrence Liang: Free as in Soul: The Anti-image Politics of Copyright
- Cory Doctorow: You Can't Own Knowledge
- Yochai Benkler: Complexity and Humanity
- Isaac Mao: Sharism: A Mind Revolution
- Marko Ahtisaari: Intelligent Travel
References
edit- ^ "FREESOULS: Captured and Released by Joi Ito". joiito.com. 2008-08-01.
- ^ "Freesouls: Captured and Released". On the Commons. 2009-02-16. Archived from the original on 2012-09-23.
- ^ "Joi Ito's Freesouls: a book of CC-licensed portraits of, and essays by, copyfighters". BoingBoing. 2008-08-01.