Free Culture
108 Installments—Entirely free
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from 6 Ratings and 2 Reviews
Tags: Culture, Law, Media, Non-Fiction
ISBN:1594200068
This book is about an effect of the Internet beyond the Internet itself: an effect upon how culture is made.
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Opening Lines (Experimental)
At the end of his review of my first book, /Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace/, David Pogue, a brilliant writer and author of countless technical and computer- related texts, wrote this:
"Unlike actual law, Internet software has no capacity to punish. It doesn't affect people who aren't online ...
Copyright
Copyright 2004 by Lawrence Lessig
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0
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4/5
Reviewed by plofkerh on Jan 27, 2009
Excellent
Lessig in layman's terms describes the concept of copyright and how the existing system is broken.
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Reviewed by Prokofy on Jan 20, 2009
Criticism of Lessig Sorely Needed
I'm going to critique each installment I can, as I think Lessig has gotten away with murder for far too long.
http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/second_thoughts/2008/12/liberating-free-culture-1.html
http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/second_thoughts/2008/12/liberating-free-culture-2-tinie-causby.html
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