Free culture [electronic resource] : how big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity / Lawrence Lessig.
Format:
[electronic resource] :
Publisher:
Penguin Press,
Copyright Date:
2004
Description:
xvi, 345 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Reproduction Info:
Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2005. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-330) and index.
Contents:
Index. Introduction -- 5. 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 -- [pt. 2]. 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 -- [pt. 3]. Puzzles -- ch. 11. Chimera -- ch. 12. Harms -- Constraining creators -- Constraining innovators -- Corrupting citizens -- [pt. 4]. Balances -- ch. 13. Eldred -- ch. 14. Eldred II -- Conclusion -- 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 -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
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.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.