Acknowledgments
Sponsors of this Book
Total Knowledge (www.total-knowledge.com), the company I run with my son Ilya and daughter Sasha, has provided financial support for the author and publication of the book.
Direct Interlocutors
These are the intelligent people whose active participation in discussion, extensive knowledge, powerful emotional charge, plain help, and advice caused the book to emerge. I cannot tell who helped me more to assemble my message: co-thinkers or opponents, those I argued with directly or those whose posts I just read, finding them interesting, helpful, or thought provoking.
I want to express my exceptional thanks to the following people:
Tom Poe, founder of Open Studios, who was the major disciplinary force for me. Tom encouraged me to compile the Authoright license, one of the central points of this book. Tom helped me to overcome my own laziness and to put in writing most of the chapters. They appeared for the first time in my column called Culture vs. Copyright, in the Open Studios Newsletter, published by Tom.
The late Cookie Holley, founder of bNg Records (the site is not working any more, but the mailing list bumpNgrind@yahoogroups.com still does) and an enthusiastic, artistic, absolutely unique personality of a unique fate. Cookie was able to invoke the highest sense of personal responsibility while being wise and gentle. She was another driving force in my quest. It is truly tragic that she is no longer with us.
