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2nd December 2008

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Bloomsbury Academic makes first deal

08.10.08 Benedicte Page

Bloomsbury Academic has acquired its first title and will publish next week (16th October). Lawrence Lessig’s Remix: Making Art and Commerce thrive in the Hybrid Economy is already on the shortlist for the FT Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, and will be published in the US by Penguin on 16th October.

Lessig is a law professor at Stanford and one of the founders of Creative Commons, the licences that Bloomsbury Academic intends to employ to allow non-commercial use of all its titles on publication. The argument of Remix is that we harm our children, and almost anyone who creates, enjoys or sells any art form, if we use a restrictive copyright system driven by corporate interests. Instead the book proposes a collaborative but profitable “hybrid economy.”

Bloomsbury Academic m.d. Jonathan Glasspool described Lessig as "the reigning author on intellectual property in the internet age," calling Remix “a compelling examination of the potential of today’s and tomorrow’s online culture”.

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