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Free culture

how big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity

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Lessig details the history of copyright law as it pertains to digital media, how it has affected creativity and expression online.

Title for the hardcover and PDF versions: Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity

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Publisher
Penguin Press
Language
English
Pages
345

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First Sentence

"At the endof 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 (and only a tiny minority of the world population is). And if you don’t like the Internet’s system,you can always flip off the modem."

Table of Contents

preface
Page xiii
INTRODUCTION
Page 1
“PIRACY”
Page 15
CHAPTER ONE:Creators
Page 21
CHAPTER TWO:“Mere Copyists”
Page 31
CHAPTER THREE:Catalogs
Page 48
CHAPTER FOUR:“Pirates”
Page 53
Film
Page 53
Recorded Music
Page 56
Radio
Page 58
Cable TV
Page 59
CHAPTER FIVE:“Piracy”
Page 62
Piracy I
Page 63
Piracy II
Page 66
“PROPERTY”
Page 81
CHAPTER SIX:Founders
Page 89
CHAPTER SEVEN:Recorders
Page 95
CHAPTER EIGHT:Transformers
Page 100
CHAPTER NINE:Collectors
Page 108
CHAPTER TEN:“Property”
Page 116
Why Hollywood Is Right
Page 124
Beginnings
Page 130
Law: Duration
Page 133
Law: Scope
Page 136
Law and Architecture: Reach
Page 139
Architecture and Law: Force
Page 147
Market: Concentration
Page 161
Together
Page 168
PUZZLES
Page 175
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Chimera
Page 177
CHAPTER TWELVE: Harms
Page 183
Constraining Creators
Page 184
Constraining Innovators
Page 188
Corrupting Citizens
Page 199
BALANCES
Page 209
CHAPTER THIRTEEN:Eldred
Page 213
CHAPTER FOURTEEN:Eldred II
Page 248
CONCLUSION
Page 257
AFTERWORD
Page 273
Us, Now
Page 276
Rebuilding Freedoms Previously Presumed: Examples
Page 277
Rebuilding Free Culture: One Idea
Page 282
Them, Soon
Page 287
1. More Formalities
Page 287
Registration and Renewal
Page 289
Marking
Page 290
2. Shorter Terms
Page 292
3. Free Use Vs. Fair Use
Page 294
4. Liberate the Music—Again
Page 296
5. Fire Lots of Lawyers
Page 304
NOTES
Page 307
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Page 331
INDEX
Page 333

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-330) and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
343.7309/9
Library of Congress
KF2979 .L47 2004, KF2979.L47 2004, KF2979 .L47 2005

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xvi, 345 p. :
Number of pages
345
Dimensions
7 11/16 x 5 x 5/8 inches

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3691799M
ISBN 10
1594200068
LCCN
2003063276
OCLC/WorldCat
58799050, 54819077, 53324884
Goodreads
72016

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL6037024W

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