Skip to Main Content (Press Enter)
Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig
Add Free Culture to bookshelf
Add to Bookshelf

Look Inside

Free Culture

The Nature and Future of Creativity

The Nature and Future of Creativity

By Lawrence Lessig

By Lawrence Lessig

By Lawrence Lessig

By Lawrence Lessig

Best Seller
Paperback $24.00

Feb 22, 2005 | ISBN 9780143034650

Ebook $6.99

Mar 30, 2004 | ISBN 9781101200841

All Formats
+
    Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig
    Paperback $24.00
    Feb 22, 2005 | ISBN 9780143034650

    Buy from Other Retailers:

    See All Formats (1) +
    • $24.00

      Feb 22, 2005 | ISBN 9780143034650

      Buy from Other Retailers:

    • Mar 30, 2004 | ISBN 9781101200841

      Buy from Other Retailers:

    Buy the Ebook:

    About Free Culture

    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.

    About Free Culture

    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.

    Read An Excerpt

    Read An Excerpt

    Also by Lawrence Lessig

    Remix
    The Future of Ideas
    See all books by Lawrence Lessig

    Also by Lawrence Lessig

    Remix
    The Future of Ideas
    See all books by Lawrence Lessig

    About Lawrence Lessig

    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… More about Lawrence Lessig

    About Lawrence Lessig

    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… More about Lawrence Lessig

    Product Details

    Category: Self-Improvement & Inspiration

    Paperback | $24.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Feb 22, 2005 | 368 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780143034650

    Category: Self-Improvement & Inspiration

    Ebook | $6.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Mar 30, 2004 | 368 Pages | ISBN 9781101200841

    YOU MAY ALSO LIKE

    Praise

    “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

    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

    Looking for More Great Reads?
    21 Books You’ve Been Meaning to Read

    Visit other sites in the Penguin Random House Network

    Raise kids who love to read

    Brightly

    Raise kids who love to read

    Today's Top Books

    Today's Top Books

    Want to know what people are actually reading right now?

         An online magazine for today’s home cook

    TASTE

    An online magazine for today’s home cook