Free Culture: The Nature and Future of CreativityLawrence Lessig, “the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era” (The New Yorker), masterfully argues that never before in human history has the power to control creative progress been so concentrated in the hands of the powerful few, the so-called Big Media. Never before have the cultural powers- that-be been able to exert such control over what we can and can’t do with the culture around us. Our society defends free markets and free speech; why then does it permit such top-down control? To lose our long tradition of free culture, Lawrence Lessig shows us, is to lose our freedom to create, our freedom to build, and, ultimately, our freedom to imagine. |
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... 213 CHAPTER FOURTEEN : Eldred II 248 CONCLUSION 257 AFTERWORD 273 Us , Now 276 Rebuilding Freedoms Previously Presumed : Examples 277 Rebuilding Free Culture : One Idea 282 Them , Soon 287 1. More Formalities 287 Registration and.
... 213 CHAPTER FOURTEEN : Eldred II 248 CONCLUSION 257 AFTERWORD 273 Us , Now 276 Rebuilding Freedoms Previously Presumed : Examples 277 Rebuilding Free Culture : One Idea 282 Them , Soon 287 1. More Formalities 287 Registration and.
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... example of a political system captured by a few powerful special interests ? Does common sense lead to the extremes on this question because common sense actually believes in these extremes ? Or does common sense stand silent in the ...
... example of a political system captured by a few powerful special interests ? Does common sense lead to the extremes on this question because common sense actually believes in these extremes ? Or does common sense stand silent in the ...
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... example that we should perhaps quickly forget , Trea- sure Planet ( 2003 ) . In all of these cases , Disney ( or Disney , Inc. ) ripped creativity from the culture around him , mixed that creativity with his own extraordinary talent ...
... example that we should perhaps quickly forget , Trea- sure Planet ( 2003 ) . In all of these cases , Disney ( or Disney , Inc. ) ripped creativity from the culture around him , mixed that creativity with his own extraordinary talent ...
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... example , a form of creativity that seems strange to many Americans but that is inescapable within Japanese culture : manga , or comics . The Japanese are fanatics about comics . Some 40 percent of publications are comics , and 30 ...
... example , a form of creativity that seems strange to many Americans but that is inescapable within Japanese culture : manga , or comics . The Japanese are fanatics about comics . Some 40 percent of publications are comics , and 30 ...
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... examples that appear everywhere once you begin to look . Scientists build upon the work of other scientists without asking or paying for the privilege . ( " Excuse me , Professor Ein- stein , but may I have permission to use your theory ...
... examples that appear everywhere once you begin to look . Scientists build upon the work of other scientists without asking or paying for the privilege . ( " Excuse me , Professor Ein- stein , but may I have permission to use your theory ...
Contents
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Catalogs | 48 |
Piracy | 62 |
Founders | 85 |
Recorders | 95 |
Collectors | 108 |
Harms | 183 |
Eldred | 213 |
Eldred II | 248 |
CONCLUSION | 257 |
Us Now | 276 |
Them Soon | 287 |
NOTES | 307 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 331 |
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