In a move reminiscent of the Grateful Dead allowing concert goers to make their own tapes, prominent author and Stanford law professor Larry Lessig has managed to convince Random House to allow his book The Future of Ideas to be released for free under the Creative Commons Attribution-noncommercial license.
I've only read Code, one of Lessig's earlier books. It was superb. This may just get me to read The Future of Ideas next.
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If you haven't seen Lessig speak – http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/187
worth the watch.