1594200068 9781594200069 hardcover 0143034650 paperback 9780143034650 paperback 0786547987 9780786547982 9781101200841 electronic book 1101200847 electronic book 1322731519 9781322731513
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N 640 LES.F
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.
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index. Excerpt from an editorial titled "The coming of copyright perpetuity."
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-330) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Creators "Mere copyists" Catalogs "Pirates" "Piracy" Founders Recorders Transformers Collectors "Property" Chimera Harms Eldred Eldred II Us, now Them, soon.