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Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace, Version 2.0 / Edition 2
- ISBN-10:
- 0465039146
- ISBN-13:
- 9780465039142
- Pub. Date:
- 12/05/2006
- Publisher:
- Basic Books
- ISBN-10:
- 0465039146
- ISBN-13:
- 9780465039142
- Pub. Date:
- 12/05/2006
- Publisher:
- Basic Books
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780465039142 |
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Publisher: | Basic Books |
Publication date: | 12/05/2006 |
Edition description: | 2nd Revised ed. |
Pages: | 432 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.25(h) x (d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Preface | ix | |
Part 1 | Regulability | |
Chapter 1 | Code Is Law | 3 |
Chapter 2 | Four Puzzles from Cyberspace | 9 |
Chapter 3 | Is-Ism | 24 |
Chapter 4 | Architectures of Control | 30 |
Chapter 5 | Regulating Code | 43 |
Part 2 | Code and Other Regulators | |
Chapter 6 | Cyberspaces | 63 |
Chapter 7 | What Things Regulate | 85 |
Chapter 8 | The Limits in Open Code | 100 |
Part 3 | Applications | |
Chapter 9 | Translation | 111 |
Chapter 10 | Intellectual Property | 122 |
Chapter 11 | Privacy | 142 |
Chapter 12 | Free Speech | 164 |
Chapter 13 | Interlude | 186 |
Chapter 14 | Sovereignty | 188 |
Part 4 | Responses | |
Chapter 15 | The Problems We Face | 213 |
Chapter 16 | Responses | 222 |
Chapter 17 | What Declan Doesn't Get | 231 |
Appendix | 235 | |
Notes | 241 | |
Index | 289 |
What People are Saying About This
Jack M. Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, Director, the Information Society Project at Yale Law School
In Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Larry Lessig compellingly demonstrates the central idea of cyberlaw: Software architecture can regulate our lives as much as any legal rule. This is, quite simply, the best book that has been written on the law of cyberspace.
Lawrence Lessig exposes the limits of prevailing views about how cyberspace is (and is not) regulated, and makes a compelling case for the urgency of learning to transcend those limits. Code is essential reading for those who care about the future of cyberspace, and of the human society within which "cyberspace" plays an increasingly central role.
This may be the most important book ever published about the Internet, as well as one of the most readable. Lessig's ideas are deep and insightful, and they will shape the way the future develops. He is a master at seeing the important ideas lurking behind things we all take for granted.
From the Author of The Media Lab and The Clock of the Long Now
Lawrence Lessig is a James Madison of our time, crafting the lineaments of a well-tempered cyberspace. This book is a primer of "running code" for digital civilization. Like Madison, Lessig is a model of balance, judgement, ingenuity, and persuasive argument.
From the Author of My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World
Larry Lessig has taken an acute insight into the nature of law in and around cyberspace and turned it into a sweeping, powerful, and brilliantly lucid argument. For anyone passionate about securing the freedoms of thought and expression the Internet seems to promise, Code is a book full of challenging and galvanizing heresiesónot the least of them being Lessig's central insistence that computer code can be just as much a threat to those freedoms as legislative code. This is not just an interesting point; it demands a rethinking of the social contract as radical as any since the days of Locke. And with wit, rigor, and a graceful accessibility, Lessig here proves himself Locke's worthy heir.
This fascinating and provocative book is a fine introduction to the brave new world of the Internet, to the novel issues it raises, and to the old issues it poses in a new light.
From the Author of The Control Revolution
Graceful, provocative, witty, and unpredictable, Code is a masterpiece that neither lawyers nor Internet mavens can keep for themselves. It is indispensable for anyone who wants to understand the digital age.
From the Author of The Coming of Post-Industrial Society
Lessig's exposition reads like a Stanley Kubrick film, with the menace made palpable by new technologies....It is a troubling book, and one that needs to be taken seriously.
Lessig's book is an astonishing achievement. The nation's leading scholar of cyberspace has produced a paradigm-shifting work that will transform the debate about the architecture of cyberspace. Lessig challenges us to make choices about freedom, privacy, intellectual property, and technology that most of us didn't recognize as choices in the first place. This dark, exhilarating work is the most important book of its generation about the relationship between law, cyberspace, and social organization.
Code penetrates the cyberfluff to reveal the deep structure of our brave new world.
Lawrence Lessig takes seriously the proposition that, in cyberspace, code is the law, and he traces out the consequences in a lucid and insightful way. If you want to know what daily life will be like in the computer-mediated twenty-first century, this is essential reading.