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Almost everything we now have in volume format—in such a way that we can step into a bookshop and say “I’m looking for a copy of…”—was published posthumously. After Wittgenstein died in 1951, his appointed literary executors, G.E.M. Anscombe and G.H. von Wright, were left with the task of sorting and grouping his handwritten notes and typescripts in order to publish them.<ref>For more details, see von Wright, G.H. (1969). "The Wittgenstein Papers". Philosophical Review. 78 (4): 483–503.</ref> | Almost everything we now have in volume format—in such a way that we can step into a bookshop and say “I’m looking for a copy of…”—was published posthumously. After Wittgenstein died in 1951, his appointed literary executors, G.E.M. Anscombe and G.H. von Wright, were left with the task of sorting and grouping his handwritten notes and typescripts in order to publish them.<ref>For more details, see von Wright, G.H. (1969). "The Wittgenstein Papers". Philosophical Review. 78 (4): 483–503.</ref> | ||
[[File:Ludwig Wittgenstein.jpg|thumb|upright|right|link=|Ludwig Wittgenstein (Vienna, 1889 – Cambridge, 1951)]] | [[File:Ludwig Wittgenstein.jpg|thumb|upright|right|link=|Ludwig Wittgenstein (Vienna, 1889 – Cambridge, 1951). Photo by Moritz Nähr.]] | ||
Now, the ''Nachlass'' itself—the collection of Wittgenstein’s manuscript material, the “raw” Wittgenstein—has been available online since the 2010s, almost in its entirety, both in a fac-simile edition and in an XML/HTML transcription. This was made possible by the generosity of the copyright holders of the originals, The Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, and the work of the Wittgenstein Archives Bergen. Much of the digitised content has been released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial licence (CC BY-NC).<ref>For more information, see the website of the <span class="plainlinks">[http://wab.uib.no/ Wittgenstein Archives Bergen]</span> and <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.wittgensteinsource.org/ WittgensteinSource]</span>.</ref> | Now, the ''Nachlass'' itself—the collection of Wittgenstein’s manuscript material, the “raw” Wittgenstein—has been available online since the 2010s, almost in its entirety, both in a fac-simile edition and in an XML/HTML transcription. This was made possible by the generosity of the copyright holders of the originals, The Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, and the work of the Wittgenstein Archives Bergen. Much of the digitised content has been released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial licence (CC BY-NC).<ref>For more information, see the website of the <span class="plainlinks">[http://wab.uib.no/ Wittgenstein Archives Bergen]</span> and <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.wittgensteinsource.org/ WittgensteinSource]</span>.</ref> | ||
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All internet projects inspired by the principles of the Free Culture movement live in what seems to be a contradiction. | All internet projects inspired by the principles of the Free Culture movement live in what seems to be a contradiction. | ||
[[File:Ludwig and Paul Wittgenstein by Carl Pietzner, 1909.jpg|thumb|right|Ludwig and Paul Wittgenstein photographed by Carl Pietzner in 1909.]] | |||
Our very existence is an objection against the status quo of intellectual property laws. Wikipedia, the Internet Archive, the Gutenberg Project and all the others, including, small as it may be, the Ludwig Wittgenstein Project, are (among other things) living objections against the notion that copyright should benefit heirs for decades after the death of authors. We hope and we work for a world in which knowledge and culture can be freely accessible to all. And we want all to be aware that our world would be one step closer to that if copyright helped creators make a living out of their creations and then expired at the moment of their passing. | Our very existence is an objection against the status quo of intellectual property laws. Wikipedia, the Internet Archive, the Gutenberg Project and all the others, including, small as it may be, the Ludwig Wittgenstein Project, are (among other things) living objections against the notion that copyright should benefit heirs for decades after the death of authors. We hope and we work for a world in which knowledge and culture can be freely accessible to all. And we want all to be aware that our world would be one step closer to that if copyright helped creators make a living out of their creations and then expired at the moment of their passing. | ||