Free Culture
The Nature And Future Of Creativity
Lessig, Lawrence
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Lawrence Lessig, the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era (The New Yorker), masterfully argues that never before in human history has the power to control creative progress been so concentrated in the hands of the powerful few, the so-called Big Media. Never before have the cultural powers- that-be been able to exert such control over what we can and cant do with the culture around us. Our society defends free markets and free speech; why then does it permit such top-down control? To lose our long tradition of free culture, Lawrence Lessig shows us, is to lose our freedom to create, our freedom to build, and, ultimately, our freedom to imagine.
AUTHOR BIO
Lawrence Lessig is a professor at Stanford Law School and the founder of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. He has clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and for Judge Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court. The author of The Future of Ideas and Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace.
BOOK REVIEWS
A powerfully argued and important analysis... surprisingly entertaining. (The New York Times Book Review) An entertaining and important look at the past and future of the cold war between the media industry and new technologies. (Marc Andreessen, cofounder of Netscape)
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0143034650
ISBN(13-digit): 9780143034650
Copyright: 2005
Dewey Decimal: 343.7309/9
Library of Congress: bl2007000316
Book Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 345
Paper Weight (lb): 0.55 lb
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