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Title: Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
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| Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity by Penguin (Non-Classics) A must-read for anyone interested or concerned about copyrights |
This book is not only a history lesson on copyright, but it shows how big corporate enterprises obtain and used material, through the same methods they now want to deny the general public, in order to get to the powerful presence they are today.
Example: Disney using lots of old fairy-tales which were in public domain. And today they fight for everything never to go into public domain in order to keep profit to themselves, while at the same time going after creative use that would expand our culture and art. |
| Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity by Penguin (Non-Classics) Fascinating |
| This book is worth the price just to hear the constant process of American culture - be a pirate, fend off "the man" to build your industry, become "the man," then go after the pirates who are presumably cutting into your business. Money makes hypocrites of us all. Please, RIAA, don't sue me for reading this book (although I'm sure you'll find a way, if there aren't any grandmothers or poor college students you can harass). |
| Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity by Penguin (Non-Classics) Everyone should read this |
This book is excellent. Lessig's argument is thorough and well-developed, showing why the copyright laws affect all of us, from producers of copyright material to consumers and creative innovators building off of previous work. A great, and important, read for anyone, especially those interested in learning how Big Media in bed with Congress has successfully limited the freedom of typically law-abiding citizens to empower the old corporations and enfeeble the upstarts.
Whether conservative or liberal or anything in between, the book should really "strike home" and make you understand just how important it is to have a free culture. |
| Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity by Penguin (Non-Classics) A must for anyone online |
I heard Lawrence Lessig speak at a conference earlier in 2006 and it was one of the best presentations I'd ever heard. So it will come as no surprise that his book is written in the same to the point, easy to follow and conscise style.
It's historical research sets the foundation for a look at things to come on the Internet as new technology threatens established media, much the same way as Lessig points out it did in previous centuries. The pirates of yesteryear are the corporations of today who threaten the pirates of today. He is humble as he describes his defeat in the US Supreme Court and proactive as he puts some suggestions forward to resolve the current crisis affecting copyright on the Net.
Couldn't put it down and have already purchased Code 2 by the same author. |
| Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity by Penguin (Non-Classics) This is an incredible book and a must-have if you want to learn about new copyright rules! |
| This is an incredible book. I agree so much with the discussions that Lawrence gives, and the material is a great look at issues related to the special interest groups and some of the things they have pushed and are trying to push through Congress. |
| Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity by Penguin (Non-Classics) Product Description |
| 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. |
