Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity

This present publication is about the struggle that centers on the ideas of 'piracy' and 'property', the problem of copyright ownership in the age of the Internet. 'To lose out 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.' - excerpt from the back of the book.

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Onsite

author

Lawrence LESSIG

publisher

Penguin Books (New York, United States)

Location code

REF.LEL2

Language

English

Keyword

cyberculture, technology, public sphere

Publication/Creation date

2004

No of pages

346

ISBN / ISSN

0143034650

No of copies

Content type

monograph

Chapter headings

Piracy

Creators

'Mere Copyists'

Catalogs

'Pirates' - Film, Recorded Music, Radio, Cable TV

'Piracy'

Property

Founders

Recorders

Transformers

Collectors

'Property': Why Hollywood is Right, Beginnings, Law, Law and Architecture, Architecture and Law, Market, Together

Puzzles

Chimera

Harms: Constraining Creators, Contraining Innovators, Corrupting Citizens

Balances

Eldred

Eldred II

Conclusion

Afterword

Us, Now: Rebuilding Freedoms Previously Presumed, Rebuilding Free Culture

Them, Soon: More Formalities, Shorter Terms, Free Use vs. Fair Use, Liberate the Music - Again, Fire Lots of Lawyers

Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity

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