false 39123914 1264081 72011 0143034650 9780143034650 79 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 4.17 427 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 1039 165 2004 4 0 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...]]>