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Free Culture

by Lawrence Lessig

108 Installments—Entirely free

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Members' Rating: 3.71from 7 Ratings and 2 Reviews

Tags: Culture, Law, Media, Non-Fiction

ISBN:1594200068

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This book is about an effect of the Internet beyond the Internet itself: an effect upon how culture is made.


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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 ...

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Copyright

Copyright 2004 by Lawrence Lessig

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0

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1/5 1.00

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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4/5 4.00

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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azrachimpanzee 3.00   2009-03-09
dustin 5.00   2009-05-22
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intothevoid 5.00   2009-04-08
MylesC 4.00   2009-03-26
plofkerh 4.00 Read review 2009-01-27
Prokofy 1.00 Read review 2008-12-25

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