Free Culture

Produktbeschreibung

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. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction
"PIRACY"
Chapter One: Creators
Chapter Two: "Mere Copyists"
Chapter Three: Catalogs
Chapter Four: "Pirates"
Film
Recorded Music
Radio
Cable TVChapter Five: "Piracy"
Piracy I
Piracy II"PROPERTY"
Chapter Six: Founders
Chapter Seven: Recorders
Chapter Eight: Transformers
Chapter Nine: Collectors
Chapter Ten: "Property"
Why Hollywood Is Right
Beginnings
Law: Duration
Law: Scope
Law and Architecture: Reach
Architecture and Law: Force
Market: Concentration
Together"PUZZLES"
Chapter Eleven: Chimera
Chapter Twelve: Harms
Constraining Creators
Constraining Innovators
Corrupting Citizens"BALANCES"
Chapter Thirteen: Eldred
Chapter Fourteen: Eldred II
ConclusionAFTERWORD
Us, Now
Rebuilding Freedoms Previously Presumed: Examples
Rebuilding Free Culture: One Idea
Them, Soon
1. More Formalities
Registration and Renewal
Marking
2. Shorter Terms
3. Free Use Vs. Fair Use
4. Liberate the Music - Again
5. Fire Lots of Lawyers
Notes
Acknowledgments Index 

Kritik

"A powerfully argued and important analysis... surprisingly entertaining."ÿ The New York Times Book Review"An entertaining and important look at the past and future of the cold war between the media industry and new technologies."ÿ Marc Andreessen, cofounder of Netscape 

Autoreninfo

Lawrence Lessig ist Professor an der Stanford Law School und Fellow des Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Er trat als Experte im Prozess gegen Microsoft auf. Sein Augenmerk gilt den neuen Kontroversen um geistiges Eigentum, Schutz der Privatsphäre, freie Meinungsäußerung und nationale Souveränität, die sich durch die technische Revolution ergeben haben. 1999/2000 war er Fellow des Wissenschaftskollegs zu Berlin. Er lebt in Cambridge, Massachusetts.