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Free culture, how big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity, Lawrence Lessig

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Free culture, how big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity, Lawrence Lessig

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-330) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Free culture

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

53324884

Responsibility statement

Lawrence Lessig

Sub title

how big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity

Summary

Lawrence Lessig, "the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era" (The New Yorker), is often called our leading cultural environmentalist. His focus is the ecosystem of creativity, the environment created around it by technology and law. To read Free Culture is to understand that the health of that ecosystem is in grave peril. While new technologies always lead to new laws, Lessig shows that never before have the big cultural monopolists drummed up such unease about these advances, especially the Internet, to shrink the public domain while using the same advances to control what we can and can't do with the culture all around us. What's at stake is our freedom -- freedom to create, freedom to build, and, ultimately, freedom to imagine

Table Of Contents

Creators -- "Mere copyists" -- Catalogs -- "Pirates" -- "Piracy" -- Founders -- Recorders -- Transformers -- Collectors -- "Property" -- Chimera -- Harms -- Eldred -- Eldred II -- Us, now -- Them, soon

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Free culture : the nature and future of creativity

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Creator