The book 'Open Cultures and the Nature of Networks' by Felix Stalder broaches contemporary aspects of cultural production and consumption, ranging from the de-centering of authorship, which moves away from individuals to groups, networks or communities, to the blurring of the line between artists and their audiences, the organization of cultural industries, the adaptation of intellectual property law, the future development of technology, the status of a work of art itself and the other processes inspired by movement for Free and Open Source Software. The book contains his 11 essays writen in last eight years. More about the book and its free download at: http://www.kuda.org/kudaread_oc.htm [photopress:otvorena_kultura.jpg,full,pp_image] This book is bi-lingual publication (serbo-croatian/english) published as part of the 'The Note Book' project, initiated by New Media Center_kuda.org in the context of ALMOSTREAL 1. Editor: New Media Center_ kuda.org Editorial series: kuda.read Translations: Orfeas Skutelis, Nikolina Kneževic, Ákos Gerold Proof reading, texts in English language: Fiona Thorn Proof reading, texts in Serbian language: Milica Skutelis, Branka Curcic Design: Predrag Nikolic and kuda.org Lithography and Print: Futura, Novi Sad Print run: 500 Leading publisher and local distribution: Futura publikacije Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro ISBN 86-7188-049-4 Co-publisher: Sarajevo Center for Contemporary Art (SCCA) Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Co-publisher and the main distributor: Revolver - Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt am Main ISBN 3-86588-211-0 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/