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An edition of Code: and other laws of cyberspace (1999)

Code

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Although the book is named Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Lessig uses this theme sparingly. It is a fairly simple concept: since cyberspace is entirely human-made, there are no natural laws to determine its architecture. While we tend to assume that what is in cyberspace is a given, in fact everything there is a construction based on decisions made by people. What we can and can't do there is governed by the underlying code of all of the programs that make up the Internet, which both permit and restrict. So while the libertarians among us rail against the idea of government, our freedoms in cyberspace are being determined by an invisible structure that is every bit as restricting as any laws that can come out of a legislature, legitimate or not. Even more important, this invisible code has been written by people we did not elect and who have no formal obligations to us, such as the members of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) or the more recently-developed Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). It follows that what we will be able to do in the future will be determined by code that will be written tomorrow, and we should be thinking about who will determine what this code will be. [from http://kcoyle.net/lessig.html]

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in English
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1999, Basic Books
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Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition. Page ix
Preface to the First Edition. Page xiii
Chapter 1. Code Is Law Page 1
Chapter 2. Four Puzzles from Cyberspace Page 9
PART I. "REGULABILITY"
Chapter 3. Is-Ism: Is the Way It Is the Way It Must Be? Page 31
Chapter 4. Architectures of Control Page 38
Chapter 5. Regulating Code Page 61
PART II. REGULATION BY CODE
Chapter 6. Cyberspaces Page 83
Chapter 7. What Things Regulate Page 120
Chapter 8. The Limits in Open Code Page 138
PART III. LATENT AMBIGUITIES
Chapter 9. Translation Page 157
Chapter 10. Intellectual Property Page 169
Chapter 11. Privacy Page 200
Chapter 12. Free Speech Page 233
Chapter 13. Interlude Page 276
PART IV. COMPETING SOVEREIGNS
Chapter 14. Sovereignty Page 281
Chapter 15. Competition Among Sovereigns Page 294
PART V. RESPONSES
Chapter 16. The Problems We Face Page 313
Chapter 17. Responses Page 325
Chapter 18. What Declan Doesn't Get Page 335
Appendix. Page 340
Notes. Page 347
Index. Page 399

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OL7593621M
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0465039146
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9780465039142
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