TY - GEN N2 - 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. AB - 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. T1 - Free culture :how big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity / AU - Lessig, Lawrence, AU - Lessig, Lawrence. ET - First edition. CN - KF2979 N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index. N1 - Excerpt from an editorial titled "The coming of copyright perpetuity." ID - 13600 KW - Art KW - Intellectual property KW - Technological innovations KW - Copyright KW - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA KW - PUBLIC DOMAIN KW - FAIR USE KW - CREATIVITY KW - INTERNET KW - PIRACY KW - MEDIA KW - INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY KW - Médias SN - 1594200068 TI - Free culture :how big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity / ER -