You gotta love a man who eats his own dog food: By releasing under a CC license, copyright hero Lawrence Lessig has permitted a rich field of diverse renderings of his latest book, and while the downloads, audio streams and ebooks may be rushing out fast and furious, the published bound edition of Free Culture is still in the Amazon Top 100.

And for good reason: This is required reading for anyone interested in cultural piracy, and it's an amazing commodius vicus of recirculation streaming tale upon tale of expertly researched eye-openers on just which pot is calling the kettle black:

Imagine the injustice of the thing. A composer writes a song or an opera. A publisher buys at great expense the rights to the same and copyrights it. Along come the phonographic companies and companies who cut music rolls and deliberately steal the work of the brain of the composer and publisher without any regard for [their] rights.