{"id":48741,"date":"2011-09-15T11:03:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T15:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=48741"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:21:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:21:23","slug":"independent-buckman-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/09\/15\/independent-buckman-91\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent profiles international Internet entrepreneur Buckman &#039;91"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/john-buckman-the-battle-to-keep-the-internet-free-for-all-2335562.html\"><em>The Independent<\/em> profiles John Buckman &#8217;91<\/a>, calling him &#8220;a man without borders, who splits his time between  London and Silicon Valley, running two businesses, indulging his  passions for the arts, and campaigning for freedom on the Internet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Buckman heads the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/\">Electronic Frontier  Foundation,<\/a> which focuses on Internet issues around free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights, and\u00a0 &#8220;goes into battle to shape  copyright and free-speech laws through the U.S. court system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"pull_quote\">It is a vision of the web that  is under constant threat.<\/p>\n<p>One of Buckman&#8217;s businesses is <a href=\"http:\/\/magnatune.com\/\">Magnatune,<\/a> self-described as offering &#8220;music downloads and music streaming without being evil.&#8221; The site distributes world and classical music and defunct styles of 1980s  electronica, and unlike traditional  labels Magnatune lets the artists keep the rights to their work. His other venture is <a href=\"http:\/\/bookmooch.com\/\">BookMooch<\/a>, &#8220;whose 250,000 members swap  second-hand books amongst themselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Writer Stephen Foley suggests that these ventures &#8220;speak to Mr. Buckman&#8217;s belief that the world is at its best when people  collaborate, share and create, and where the internet is the most  powerful force for achieving these goals. It is a vision of the web that  is under constant threat from corporations that aggressively enforce &#8216;all rights reserved&#8217; copyright, and from governments and courts who  spend too much time snooping on what people do online.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/people\/profiles\/john-buckman-the-battle-to-keep-the-internet-free-for-all-2335562.html\">View story from <em>The Independent<\/em>, Aug. 11, 2011.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent profiles John Buckman &#8217;91, calling him &#8220;a man without borders,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,217,224,11009],"tags":[11051],"class_list":["post-48741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-science-technology","category-society-culture","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93409,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48741\/revisions\/93409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}