Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity (2004) (published in paperback as Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity) is a book by law professor Lawrence Lessig that was released on the Internet under the Creative Commons Attribution/Non-commercial license (by-nc 1.0) on March 25, 2004.
"There has never been a time in history when more of our 'culture' was as 'owned' as it is now....
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Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity (2004) (published in paperback as Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity) is a book by law professor Lawrence Lessig that was released on the Internet under the Creative Commons Attribution/Non-commercial license (by-nc 1.0) on March 25, 2004.
"There has never been a time in history when more of our 'culture' was as 'owned' as it is now. And yet there has never been a time when the concentration of power to control the uses of culture has been as unquestioningly accepted as it is now." (pg. 28)
In the preface of Free Culture, Lessig compares the book with a previous book of his, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, which propounded that software has the effect of law. Free Culture's message is different, Lessig writes, because it is "about the consequence of the Internet to a part of our tradition that is much more fundamental, and, as hard as this is for a geek-wanna-be to...
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