Free Culture

by Lawrence Lessig

108 Installments—Entirely free

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Members' Rating: from 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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License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0

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1/5

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

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.

Ratings for 'Free Culture' by Lessig, Lawrence

azrachimpanzee		2009-03-09
dustin		2009-05-22
eldatari		2010-05-11
intothevoid		2009-04-08
MylesC		2009-03-26
plofkerh	Read review	2009-01-27
Prokofy	Read review	2008-12-25