| Freesouls | |
| Author: | Joi Ito |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Freesouls.cc |
| Release Date: | 2008 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardcover and Paperback |
| Pages: | 200 |
| Isbn: | 0982029128 |
FREESOULS: Captured and Released by Joi Ito is a book by Joi Ito featuring 296 photographic portraits of members of the free culture movement. The project began in 2007 as way for Ito to freely distribute, through a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY), quality photos of the free culture community without the hindrance of copyright or permission.[1] [2] Freesouls also includes eight essays by major figures in the free culture movement, including Howard Rheingold, Lawrence Liang, Cory Doctorow, Isaac Mao, Christopher Adams, Yochai Benkler, Marko Ahtisaari, and a foreword by Lawrence Lessig. Isaac Mao's essay, "Sharism: A Mind Revolution", introduces Sharism for the first time.
The book was published in three editions, as a box set in an edition of 50, a soft-cover book in a print run of 1024, and a regular release.[3] It was edited by Christopher Adams and Sophie Chang.