false 72011 5 Lawrence Lessig, &#147;the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era&#148; (<I>The New Yorker</I>), 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. 69717 book 2004 Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity total:457|5:183|4:189|3:75|2:9|1:1| 457 1915 941 77 5 5 false false Sun Feb 03 14:32:35 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 10 12:16:27 -0800 2007 Sun Feb 03 14:32:19 -0800 2008
It got especially exciting toward the end, when Lessig described a legal battle he directed that ended in a loss a...more...]]> 5 3 false false Thu Jun 07 20:08:08 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 07 20:09:17 -0700 2007 http://www.free-culture.cc/freecontent/]]> 0 2 false false Tue Sep 11 18:45:49 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 11 18:45:49 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Nov 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 11:18:42 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 11:19:39 -0800 2008
In Free Culture, Lawrence Lessig focuses on piracy and how copyright law and copyright problems have expanded in today’s media. There is definitely growing awareness of copyright infringement especially since technology continues to advance ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 20 07:26:24 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 24 16:18:14 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Sat Dec 22 13:13:19 -0800 2007 Mon Jan 07 19:34:42 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat May 08 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Tue Jun 17 08:01:03 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 17 08:02:51 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 11:45:54 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 14:15:49 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 27 14:53:45 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 27 20:09:52 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Sun Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 10:56:58 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 21:56:45 -0700 2009
Lawrence Lessig paints a picture of how the law could be if we would scrap our antiquated systems and re-write them based on fairness and common sense. What if law weren't so polarized? What if ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 19 13:02:54 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 13:10:34 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Aug 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 26 09:08:06 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 22:09:34 -0700 2008
So naturally, I wanted to read everything the dude has written. I started here.

This is an important book for people to have read. I think it does a terrific job of ill...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 12 15:30:36 -0800 2008 Sat May 02 14:57:16 -0700 2009
Lessig was a decently pleasant narrator, although he relied a little too heavily on case studies and analogies for my pr...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jul 28 21:14:26 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 18 11:47:38 -0700 2008 http://www.turnstyle.org/FreeCulture/

The illustrative stories that begin every chapter are fascinating. Anyone who understands analogies and cares about our culture will be puzzled about the new expansions of copyright until decades ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 13:17:33 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 12 12:32:48 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Jan 09 09:20:57 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 09:24:07 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Mon Jul 20 05:44:57 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 18:57:20 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Nov 28 06:21:50 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 06:24:49 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Wed Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 22 05:03:09 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 05:04:15 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Nov 27 20:21:28 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 15 15:45:15 -0800 2009 riveting. I know it doesn't seem like it would be, but it is,...more...]]>