Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity

Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity

by Lawrence Lessig
Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity

Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity

by Lawrence Lessig

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780143034650
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 02/22/2005
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 368
Product dimensions: 5.11(w) x 7.69(h) x 0.79(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Lawrence Lessig is a professor at Stanford Law School and the founder of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. The author of The Future of Ideas and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, he is the chair of the Creative Commons project. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Cambridge University, and Yale Law School, he has clerked for Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Jon Else is a documentary filmmaker, who has been very successful in spreading his art. He is a teacher of other filmmakers and, as a teacher myself, I envy the loyalty and admiration he has built in his students. (I met, by accident, two of his students at a dinner party. He was their god.)

Else worked on a documentary that I was involved with. At a break, he told me a story about the freedom to create with film in America today.

In 1990, Else was working on a documentary about Wagner’s Ring Cycle, and the story was to be told by the stagehands at the San Francisco Opera. Stagehands are a particularly funny and colorful aspect of opera. During a show, they hang out below the stage in the grips’ lounge and in the lighting loft. They are a perfect contrast to the art on the stage.
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Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction

"PIRACY"
Chapter One: Creators

Chapter Two: "Mere Copyists"

Chapter Three: Catalogs

Chapter Four: "Pirates"
Film
Recorded Music
Radio
Cable TV

Chapter Five: "Piracy"
Piracy I
Piracy II

"PROPERTY"
Chapter Six: Founders

Chapter Seven: Recorders

Chapter Eight: Transformers

Chapter Nine: Collectors

Chapter Ten: "Property"
Why Hollywood Is Right
Beginnings
Law: Duration
Law: Scope
Law and Architecture: Reach
Architecture and Law: Force
Market: Concentration
Together

"PUZZLES"
Chapter Eleven: Chimera

Chapter Twelve: Harms
Constraining Creators
Constraining Innovators
Corrupting Citizens

"BALANCES"
Chapter Thirteen: Eldred

Chapter Fourteen: 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

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"A powerfully argued and important analysis... surprisingly entertaining." —The New York Times Book Review

"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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