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Author Lessig, Lawrence.

Title Free culture : how big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity / Lawrence Lessig.

Imprint New York : Penguin Press, 2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  343.099 L566f 2004    ---  Available
Description xvi, 345 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-330) and index.
Contents Creators -- Mere copyists -- Catalogs -- Pirates -- Piracy -- Founders -- Recorders -- Transformers -- Collectors -- Property -- Chimera -- Harms -- Eldred -- Eldred II.
Summary While new technologies always lead to new laws, Lessig shows that never before have the big cultural monopolists drummed up such unease about these advances, especially the Internet, to shrink the public domain while using the same advances to control what we can and can't do with the culture all around us.
Subject Intellectual property.
Mass media -- Corrupt practices.
Technological innovations.
Art -- Censorship.
Freedom and art.
ISBN 1594200068 (hardcover : alk. paper)

 
    
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