Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143034650)

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.

Author: Lawrence Lessig
ISBN-10: 0143034650
ISBN-13: 9780143034650
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 02/22/2005
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 7.72h x 5.04w x 0.69d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 04/17/2005 pg. 28
Ingram Advance 03/01/2005 pg. 96