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Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity Hardcover – Bargain Price, March 30, 2004

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0007XWN5U
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Press HC, The (March 30, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ Portuguese Brazilian
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds

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Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, and director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Prior to rejoining the Harvard faculty, Lessig was a professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the school’s Center for Internet and Society, and at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court.

Lessig serves on the Board of Creative Commons (emeritus) and the AXA Research Fund. He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Association, and has received numerous awards, including the Free Software Foundation's Freedom Award, a Webby Lifetime Achievement Award, Fastcase 50 Award and being named one of Scientific American's Top 50 Visionaries.

Lessig holds a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge, and a JD from Yale.

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Clay D.

Sloppy Printing

Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2018

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All the charts are missing, there are glaring omissions of statistics, and the formatting is odd. This printing was the result of the bare minimum of effort. It’s like they copied and pasted, clicked merge formats and then never bothered to edit. Italics from book titles are missing, so are quotation marks. This book is a mess

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Jonathan Brown

Good, current and readable

Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2004

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This is the third in a series of books by Professor Lessig. The Future of Ideas and Code were excellent in setting the context of the debate about intellectual property. But this book adds to those significant contributions.

The author has an interesting ability to bring in anecdotes that enliven his narrative. He also is able to relate in somewhat painful detail his intervention in the Ellred case - where the Supreme Court denied the ability of a person to publish a poem - that by any reasonable standard should be in the public domain. He discusses the role of Jack Valenti (MPA) and the RIAA in trying to alter the balance of interests between the producers and the consumers of ideas.

Finally, professor Lessig makes two more sets of contributions that are important to help us understand the dynamics of an arcane issue. First, he does a great job at setting the context for the debates about intellectual property - some of this builds on what was written in his two earlier books - but it is valuable none-the-less. Intellectual property and physical property are not the same and should probably not be considered co-equal under the law.

At the same time he makes a great set of suggestions about how to balance the rights of producers of ideas and consumers.

The original debate that got Americans concerned with these issues began between James Madison and Thomas Jefferson who argued over the appropriate scope of the "progress clause" in the Constitution. Lessig follows in that great tradition and adds to our knowledge.

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D. Garza

Prepare to be horrified!

Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2011

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Excellent book that shows how copyright laws in the country have become more of a barrier to the creative world rather than a tool that drives innovation. Lessig offers a mostly balanced argument about why copyright needs to be reformed, however this may do little sway hardcore, intellectual property extremists.

If you don't believe in the original ideas that the framers had in mind when copyright laws were drafted, you won't be able to follow Lessig's argument. Some believe that ALL property is absolute and that intellectual property should be no different, regardless of the reasons that we have for limiting the reach and scope of our intellectual property rights.

long live "free" culture!

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RavenB&W

Free Mickey

Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2008

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This is a must read as the issues that Lessing addresses have implications that go way further than the entertainment industry. I agreed with almost all of his argument although I did find at some point he was pushing it BUT overall he makes a righteous argument and I choose that word "righteous" carefully. This is an issue that effects all of us in everything from education to health care and his arguments resonate in these times of wars for oil and legalized dope dealing by the health care industry. Freeing Mickey is really the least of it but nevertheless lies at the center of the issue and makes a great symbol. However I caution the potential reader to not multitask and read this book while viewing The Pirates of The Caribbean as the outcome is that they will go on to raise the colors and break the law!

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Robert

Surprisingly entertaining for a book about intellectual property law

Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2012

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This book is great eye opener to today's world of copyright law. Lessig shows how perpetual copyrights and corporate lawyers are destroying the future of culture. It is also surprisingly entertaining for book centered around intellectual property law, even humorous at times. It includes a narrative of Lessig's own case with the Supreme Court, and how and why it failed. I would recommend to anyone interested in learning about copyright.

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Scott Sigler

Fascinating

Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2007

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This book is worth the price just to hear the constant process of American culture - be a pirate, fend off "the man" to build your industry, become "the man," then go after the pirates who are presumably cutting into your business. Money makes hypocrites of us all. Please, RIAA, don't sue me for reading this book (although I'm sure you'll find a way, if there aren't any grandmothers or poor college students you can harass).

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Derek

Bootlegged

Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2019

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It was a bootlegged copy. Poetic I know given the argument of the book. Pages were misnumbered graphs and chapters were missing

Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2013

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A very scary view of our society and legal system.
Unfortunately, it's true, and remains unchaged to this day.
Read this, and reinforce what you hopefully already know about the RIAA and MPAA.

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J. Smith

he said it all

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 4, 2009

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This will educate you and open your eyes....it is one of the cheapest but innovative version of the story of copyright culture which has grown out of control. Originally intended to protect the artist this law is now being used to keep the pockets lined of fat multinational conglomerate companies. Whilst criminalising alot of children, the law has failed to respond to changes in technology such as the internet which has allowed for new forms of creativity which have made the old laws insubstatial.
It recognises a shift from when the laws were created with a balance to protect businesses but also the people.
Laws that protect the interest of large businesses have been pushed into evolution by pressure from these firms, but those to protect the people are not. And remain unchanged and therfore unequipped to protect those it was originally created to protect. Where does this leave us?

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Cris

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 22, 2016

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Great read on an important subject

ghost-sypher

Top. Für jeden modern denkenden & aufgeklärt kritischen.

Reviewed in Germany on April 17, 2011

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gehört einfach in jedes Regal. In unserer Zeit von Internet, Commerz und problematischem Verlust des Allgemeingutes ein regelrechtes MUSS.
Sollte an Schulen und Unis behandelt werden.

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Victor

A great read

Reviewed in France on February 21, 2013

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The author exposes rational examples with elegance and seriousness. It was a great read despite English being my second language!

Luis Silva

Product is Great!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 27, 2014

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It was the last buy I did before Amazon have changed policies postage to Europe. Today would be vastly more expensive to Portugal, even twice the price. If i want to buy another now would be impossible and i would like to do it. Lawrence Lessig go to another webstore for a buy more things from you..

Thanks for your atention...

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