| Description |
xvi, 345 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-330) and index. |
| Contents |
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 -- 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 Puzzles -- ch. 11 Chimera -- ch. 12 Harms -- Constraining creators -- Corrupting citizens -- Balances -- ch. 13 Eldred -- ch. 14 Eldred II -- 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. |
| 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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Intellectual property -- United States.
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Mass media -- United States.
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Technological innovations -- United States.
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Art -- United States.
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| ISBN |
1594200068 hardcover alkaline paper |
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