Marshall Sahlins wants to make the Internet the new medium for pamphleteering

Creative Commons

Marshall Sahlins wants to make the Internet the new medium for traditional pamphleteering. Sahlins, a celebrated anthropologist at the University of Chicago and the founder of Prickly Paradigm Press, has decided to re-release the press's backlist with "some rights reserved." This week, Prickly Paradigm goes online with the publication of five pamphlets under a Creative Commons license.

"I just want to say that I truly support the idea of the free dissemination of intellectual information, and that I truly lament the various forms of copyrights and patents that are being put on so-called intellectual property. I also lament the collusion of universities in licensing the results of scientific research, and thus violating the project of the free dissemination of knowledge that is their reason for existence. So I consider it an important act to release these books under a Creative Commons type of license. I’m happy, and also a little proud, to do so."

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SEE ALSO:
What is Creative Commons?
Prickly Paradigm Press (Five articles on the bottom of the page are free to download. More will follow later on)
News from the open access movement
Budapest Open Access Initiative