Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig
How big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity. Free Culture is 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. Free Culture goes beyond illuminating the catastrophe to our culture of increasing regulation to show examples of how we can make a different future. These new-style heroes and examples are rooted in the traditions of the founding fathers in ways that seem obvious after reading this book. Recommended reading to those trying to unravel the shrill hype around 'intellectual property.' - Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive. The web site for the book is http: //free-culture.cc/.
Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, and director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Prior to rejoining the Harvard faculty, Lessig was a professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the school's Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. Lessig serves on the Board of Creative Commons, MapLight, Brave New Film Foundation, The American Academy, Berlin, AXA Research Fund and iCommons.org, and on the advisory board of the Sunlight Foundation. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Association, and has received numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation's Freedom Award, Fastcase 50 Award and being named one of Scientific American's Top 50 Visionaries. Lessig holds a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge, and a JD from Yale.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780143034650 |
| ISBN 10 | 0143034650 |
| Title | Free Culture |
| Author | Lawrence Lessig |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2005-02-22 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
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