Let's celebrate, today is World Book Day (athough some countries celebrate in a different day)!

[gutenberg_org@mastodon.social]

Let's celebrate, today is World Book Day (athough some countries celebrate in a different day)! It's also known as World Book or International Day of the Book.

What book are you currently reading? What's your favorite book so far?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Book_Day

You can find several interestings books in our catalogue:
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#books #literature #worldbookDay

[bishopjoey@writing.exchange]

@gutenberg_org Too many books to choose a favourite, but Ulysses and Go Tell It On The Mountain are two.

Currently reading The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall.

#WorldBookDay

[tsiolkovsky@mastodon.me.uk]

@Bishopjoey @gutenberg_org well my favourite isn’t as worthy or high culture as your two but is “ The Men from P.I.G and R.O.B.O.T” by Harry Harrison.

Out right pulp space opera but to the 6 year old me, it made me fall in love with reading and opened my eyes to the world of imagination that literature can give humanity.

I still have the copy I got when I was 6. It’s as Pratchett would say “slightly foxed… badgered, wolved and possibly beared as well. ” And very precious.

#wordbookday

[elaterite@mastoart.social]

@gutenberg_org From the Wikipedia page: "World Book and Copyright Day...is an annual event organized by [the] United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to promote reading, publishing, and copyright."

I'm all in on the former two planks and 100% opposed to the latter plank. Copyright chills the spread of knowledge. Sounds like the publishing cartel got UNESCO to promote their propaganda.

"Copyright is brain damage."
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XO9FKQAxWZc

#OpenCulture

[jcolomb@nerdculture.de]

@elaterite @gutenberg_org
I Disagree

Copyright is what allows an open culture to emerge. As an author, you have the control of what and how people are allowed to use and reuse your creations.

To get open culture, you need the culture, and this goes by respecting people and their work, which means respecting copyright. The open parts is dealt with licenses, not with absence of copyright.

That is why, AI crations, that are disrespectfully stealing from creative work, cannot ever be (open) culture.

[elaterite@mastoart.social]

@jcolomb "[Y]ou have the control of what and how people are allowed to use and reuse your creations."

In my mind that stymies the advancement of culture, of art. To advance society we need to build upon the work of the past, each generation standing on the shoulders of past generations.
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[aspeed@lgbtqia.space]

@gutenberg_org Currently I'm reading Nothing Tastes As Good by Luke Dumas, and it is so good. I've read two thirds of it in two days, that's how good it is.