| Description |
xiii, 352 pages |
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regular print |
| Contents |
1 Free -- Part I Dot.commons 2 Building blocks: commons and layers -- 3 Commons on the wires -- 4 Commons among the wired -- 5 Commons, wire-less -- 6 Commons lessons -- Part II Dot.contrast 7 Creativity in real space -- 8 Innovation from the Internet -- Part III Dot.control 9 Old vs new -- 10 Controlling the wires (and hence the code layer) -- 11 Controlling the wired (and hence the content layer) -- 12 Controlling wire-less (and hence the physical layer) -- 13 What's happening here? -- 14 Alt.commons -- 15 What Orrin understands |
| Summary |
In The future of ideas, Lawrence Lessig explains how the Internet revolution has produced a counterrevolution of potentially devastating power and effect. Creativity once flourished because the Net protected a commons on which innovators could experiment. But now, manipulating the law for their own purposes, corporations have established themselves as virtual gatekeepers of the Net while Congress, in the pockets of media magnates, has rewritten copyright and patent laws to stifle creativity and progress. Lessig weaves the history of technology and its relevant laws to make a lucid and accessible case to protect the sanctity of intellectual freedom. He shows how the door to a future of ideas is being shut just as technology is creating extraordinary possibilities that have implications for all of us |
| Analysis |
Internet |
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Intellectual property |
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Information society |
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Innovation |
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Overseas item |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also published Vintage Books, 2002 |
| Subject |
Copyright.
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Electronic data processing.
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Electronic data processing -- United States.
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Internet -- Law and legislation -- United States.
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Intellectual property -- United States.
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Internet.
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Copyright -- United States.
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Intellectual property.
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Copyright and electronic data processing.
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Internet -- Law and legislation.
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Information society.
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| Author |
Lessig, Lawrence.
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| LC no. |
2001031968 |
| ISBN |
0375505784 |
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