Along that line, I would, as a fan of William Blake, highly reccomend the following website:

http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/

Obviously, the mere existence of a non-commercial site that offers valuable content causes sufficent discomfort among those posters at IPCentral that they are only capable of demonizing any and all free culture initiatives.

I believe Patrick is praising the Shakespeare site, but pointing out how conceptions of "free culture" can make a mockery out of it.

Noel:

Actually, he seems to be mocking free culture adocates themselves, and shows thereby the small mindedness of those who tirelessly advocate strong intellectual property rights, without concerns for the freedoms thereby limited, or the value created by the global intellectual commons.

No, neither Patrick, nor I, would mock free culture individuals for their views (of course, if you're a public figure, there's some room to criticism). Its the reasoning or ideology of some free culture proponents udner question.

Also, I'm a supporter of IPRs. Some of my views differ from the rest of the IPcentral team, but most of us would disagree with broad assertions for expanding IP policices. Fanatacism in free culture is no better than fanaticism in the IPR space.

I would just point out that I am not the author of the post, Jim is, but thank you for thinking of me.

I have also posted in the past praising sites of public domain works, including a favorite of mine, the Perseus Digital Library at Tufts... http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

Perhaps we can all rewrite the Iliad and the Odyssey! Hate that whole poetic structure; the crisp, tight prose of a Tom Clancy would work far better in today's world. Oh, and you know there's a fair amount of humor in classical works (and Shakespeare); we'll certainly want to edit those passages out because in today's world if we make a joke we're mocking tireless champions of (fill in the blank).