Free Culture
by Lawrence Lessig
Publisher: Penguin Press HC 2004
ISBN/ASIN: 1594200068
ISBN-13: 9781594200069
Number of pages: 352
Description:
"How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity". Lawrence Lessig shows us that while new technologies always lead to new laws, never before have the big cultural monopolists used the fear created by new technologies, specifically the Internet, to shrink the public domain of ideas, even as the same corporations use the same technologies to control more and more what we can and can't do with culture. As more and more culture becomes digitized, more and more becomes controllable, even as laws are being toughened at the behest of the big media groups. What's at stake is our freedom-freedom to create, freedom to build, and ultimately, freedom to imagine.
Download or read it online for free here:
Download link
(2.5MB, PDF)
Similar books
The Digital Rights Movementby Hector Postigo - The MIT Press
Drawing on social movement theory and science and technology studies, the author Hector Postigo presents case studies of resistance to increased control over digital media, describing a host of tactics that range from hacking to lobbying.
(7370 views)
Intellectual Property Strategyby John Palfrey - The MIT Press
How a flexible and creative approach to intellectual property can help an organization accomplish goals. John Palfrey offers a short briefing on intellectual property strategy for corporate managers and nonprofit administrators.
(7470 views)
Open Accessby Peter Suber - The MIT Press
In this concise introduction, Peter Suber tells us what open access is, how it benefits authors and readers, how we pay for it, how it avoids copyright problems, how it has moved from the periphery to the mainstream, and what its future may hold.
(10973 views)
Intellectual Property: Law and the Information Societyby James Boyle, Jennifer Jenkins - Center for the Study of the Public Domain
This open coursebook is an introduction to intellectual property law, the set of private legal rights that allows individuals and corporations to control intangible creations and marks, and the exceptions and limitations that define those rights.
(11024 views)