Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity - Hardcover

Lessig, Lawrence

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594200068 ISBN 13: 9781594200069

Publisher: Penguin USA, 2004

Synopsis

A new study on the social dimension of creativity examines the destruction of the larger public domain of ideas, assessing the creative and innovative repercussions of America's long terms of copyright, as well as the impact of new technologies, big media, and cultural monopolies on our freedom to create, construct, and imagine. 35,000 first printi

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Review:

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)

"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

About the Author:

Lawrence Lessig is a professor at Stanford Law School and the founder of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. The author of The Future of Ideas and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, he is the chair of the Creative Commons project (www.creativecommons.org). A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Cambridge University, and Yale Law School, he has clerked for Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin USA
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1594200068
• ISBN 13: 9781594200069
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240