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Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity Paperback - 2005
by Lessig, Lawrence
- Used
From the author of "The Future of Ideas" comes "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).
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- Title Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
- Author Lessig, Lawrence
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date 2005-02-22
- Bookseller's Inventory # M01W-01260
- ISBN 9780143034650 / 0143034650
- Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 7.72 x 5.04 x 0.69 in (19.61 x 12.80 x 1.75 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Dewey Decimal Code 343.730
Summary
Lawrence 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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- Ingram Advance, 03/01/2005, Page 96
- New York Times, 04/17/2005, Page 28