false 15813355 917328 72011 0143034650 9780143034650 78 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170797743m/72011.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170797743s/72011.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72011.Free_Culture_The_Nature_and_Future_of_Creativity 4.17 425 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.]]> 25159 4.03 1035 163 2004 4 0 false Tue Feb 19 12:02:19 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 19 12:02:19 -0800 2008