Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Free Culture From the author of "The Future of Ideas" comes "an entertaining and important look at the past and future of the cold war between the media industry and new technologies" (Marc Andreessen, cofounder of Netscape).
Full description- Publisher: The Penguin Press
- Published: 01 April 2005
- Format: Paperback 368 pages
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- Categories: Sociology | Social & Cultural Anthropology | Internet Guides & Online Services | Popular Psychology
- ISBN 13: 9780143034650 ISBN 10: 0143034650
- Sales rank: 70,012
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Full description for Free Culture
Lawrence Lessig, "the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era" (The New Yorker), masterfully argues that never before in human history has the power to control creative progress been so concentrated in the hands of the powerful few, the so-called Big Media. Never before have the cultural powers- that-be been able to exert such control over what we can and can't do with the culture around us. Our society defends free markets and free speech; why then does it permit such top-down control? To lose our long tradition of free culture, Lawrence Lessig shows us, is to lose our freedom to create, our freedom to build, and, ultimately, our freedom to imagine.
