The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected WorldThe Internet revolution has come. Some say it has gone. In The Future of Ideas, Lawrence Lessig explains how the revolution has produced a counterrevolution of potentially devastating power and effect. Creativity once flourished because the Net protected a commons on which widest range of innovators could experiment. But now, manipulating the law for their own purposes, corporations have established themselves as virtual gatekeepers of the Net while Congress, in the pockets of media magnates, has rewritten copyright and patent laws to stifle creativity and progress. Lessig weaves the history of technology and its relevant laws to make a lucid and accessible case to protect the sanctity of intellectual freedom. He shows how the door to a future of ideas is being shut just as technology is creating extraordinary possibilities that have implications for all of us. Vital, eloquent, judicious and forthright, The Future of Ideas is a call to arms that we can ill afford to ignore. |
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... End - to - End in Telephones 149 Fat Pipe 151 AT & T Cable 153 11 : Controlling the Wired ( and Hence the Content Layer ) 177 Increasing Control 180 Copyright Bots 180 CPHack 184 DeCSS 187 ยก CraveTV 190 MP3 192 Napster 194 Eldred 196 ...
... End - to - End in Telephones 149 Fat Pipe 151 AT & T Cable 153 11 : Controlling the Wired ( and Hence the Content Layer ) 177 Increasing Control 180 Copyright Bots 180 CPHack 184 DeCSS 187 ยก CraveTV 190 MP3 192 Napster 194 Eldred 196 ...
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... end - to - end architecture of the network is being modified by layers of control that give network owners a say in how the network develops . In a legal sense , the regulations within which the network lives are increasingly shifting ...
... end - to - end architecture of the network is being modified by layers of control that give network owners a say in how the network develops . In a legal sense , the regulations within which the network lives are increasingly shifting ...
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... end the revolution . That's a large claim for so thin a book , so to convince you to carry on , I should qualify it a bit . I don't mean " the Internet " will end . " The Internet " is with us forever , even if the character of " the ...
... end the revolution . That's a large claim for so thin a book , so to convince you to carry on , I should qualify it a bit . I don't mean " the Internet " will end . " The Internet " is with us forever , even if the character of " the ...
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... end , then I want you to leave this book simply with a question about whether control is best . I don't have the data to prove any- thing more than this limited hope . But we do have a history to show that there is something important ...
... end , then I want you to leave this book simply with a question about whether control is best . I don't have the data to prove any- thing more than this limited hope . But we do have a history to show that there is something important ...
Contents
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Commons Among the Wired | 49 |
Commons Wireless | 73 |
Commons Lessons | 85 |
Creativity in Real Space | 103 |
Innovation from the Internet | 120 |
Controlling the Wired and Hence the Content Layer | 177 |
Controlling Wireless and Hence the Physical Layer | 218 |
Whats Happening Here? | 234 |
Alt Commons | 240 |
What Orrin Understands | 262 |
Notes | 269 |
Index | 335 |
DOT CONTROL | 143 |
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