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

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

Title remainder

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

Statement of responsibility

Lawrence Lessig

Creator

• Lessig, Lawrence

Subject

• Art -- United States
• Intellectual property -- United States
• Mass media -- United States
• Technological innovations -- United States

Language

eng

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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

343.7309/9

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

KF2979

LC item number

.L47 2004

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography