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

Lessig, Lawrence · New York, N.Y : Penguin Press, 2004

Publisher
New York, N.Y : Penguin Press, 2004
Physical description
1 pages
ISBN
0786547987 (electronic bk.);9780786547982 (electronic bk.)
Dewey classification
343.73099
Language
English

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

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001Control number21696
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005Date and time of latest transaction27 Dec 2010, 08:00
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020International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
  • 0786547987 (electronic bk.)
  • 9780786547982 (electronic bk.)
  • 1594200068
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041Language codeeng
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050Library of Congress call numberKF2979 .L47 2004eb
082Dewey Decimal call number343.73099 22
100Main entry – personal nameLessig, Lawrence.
245Title statementFree culture [electronic resource] : how big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity / Lawrence Lessig.
260Publication, distribution, etc. (imprint)New York, N.Y. : Penguin Press, 2004
300Physical description1 online resource (xvi, 345 p.) : ill.
504Bibliography, etc. noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 307-330) and index.
505Formatted contents notePreface -- Introduction -- [pt. 1]. Piracy -- ch. 1, Creators -- ch. 2. "Mere copyists" -- ch. 3. Catalogs -- ch. 4. "Pirates" -- Film -- Recorded music -- Radio -- Cable TV -- ch. 5. "Piracy" -- Piracy I -- Piracy II -- [pt. 2]. Property -- ch. 6. Founders -- ch. 7. Recorders -- ch. 8. Transformers -- ch. 9. Collectors -- ch. 10. "Property" -- Why Hollywood is right -- Beginnings -- Law : duration -- Law : scope -- Law and architecture : reach -- Architecture and law : force -- Market : concentration -- Together -- [pt. 3]. Puzzles -- ch. 11. Chimera -- ch. 12. Harms -- Constraining creators -- Constraining innovators -- Corrupting citizens -- [pt. 4]. Balances -- ch. 13. Eldred -- ch. 14. Eldred II -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Us, now -- Rebuilding freedoms previously presumed : examples -- Rebuilding free culture : one idea -- Them, soon -- 1. More formalities -- Registration and renewal -- Marking -- 2. Shorter terms -- 3. Free use vs fair use -- 4. Liberate the music : again -- 5. Fire lots of lawyers -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
520Summary, etc.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.
650Subject added entry – topical term
  • Intellectual property--United States.
  • Mass media--United States.
  • Technological innovations--United States.
651Subject added entry – geographic nameArt--United States.
776Additional physical form entryPrint version : Lessig, Lawrence. Free culture. New York : Penguin Press, 2004 1594200068 (DLC) 2003063276 (OCoLC)53324884.
999CollectionDownloads