Template:Literature wants to be free!
From What The Wiki?!
This talk will describe the efforts underway to create and distribute free literature, with a focus on Project Gutenberg and on the challenges of copyright laws. Greg Newby is the CEO of the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation (PGLAF), which operates Project Gutenberg (PG). PG is the oldest all-electronic Internet-based information source, founded in 1971. How does Project Gutenberg create and digitize electronic books? What is the technical infrastructure? How can free eBooks be used to empower people,through greater literacy? Perhaps most importantly, how has the continued expansion of copyright laws and extension of copyright protection terms kept millions of potential eBooks locked away? Other efforts to create and distribute eBooks will be discussed, including the new PG of the European Union (PG-EU). Attendees will be invited to create and distribute their own eBooks, and to contribute to the world's free electronic literature.
