Screen LibraryFree culture : the nature and future of creativity /
"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 befo...
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| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"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 cant 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 |
| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-330) and index. |
| Carrier Form: | xvi, 345 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. |
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9780143034650 (pbk.) 0143034650 (pbk.) 9781594200069 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1594200068 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | KF2979 |
| CLC: | D971.23 |
| Call Number: | D971.23/L639-1 |
| Contents: | "Piracy" -- Creators -- "Mere copyists" -- Catalogs -- "Pirates" -- "Piracy" -- "Property" -- Founders -- Recorders -- Transformers -- Collectors -- "Property" -- Puzzles -- Chimera -- Harms -- Balances -- Eldred -- Eldred II. |