Practising what he preaches

Technology columnist Dan Gillmor’s new book “We the Media, Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People” has just been released and is one of a handful of new works published under the new Creative Commons 2.0 licence.
This licence is a new form of the previous 1.0 version first created back in 2002. The licence (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0) allows anyone to “copy, distribute, perform, and make derivatives of the work” according to creativecommons.org.
The licence also allows anyone to download the book for free from the publisher, O’Reilly’s website. In an interview with Creative Commons’ Glenn Otis Brown last month, Gillmor said that this unique form of licensing “was an opportunity to live up to the things I've been preaching.
“Creative Commons is offering one of the only alternatives to the stifling and, I believe, dangerous ways of the copyright cartel that is trying to lock everything down.”
Because of this license, Gillmor is looking forward to what people do with the book, like inserting hyperlinks and creating audio versions of the chapters.