- Intellectual property, Technological innovations, Art, Mass media
Lessig details the history of copyright law as it pertains to digital media, how it has affected creativity and expression online. Title for the hardcover and PDF versions: Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity
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Classical in form, cool, earnest and spare.
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- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Lawrence Lessig
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Penguin (Non-Classics), Wydawnictwa Szkolne i Pedagogiczne, Independently published
- Editions
- 37
- Language
- Polish, nor, English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781986203470
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“Since the inception of the law regulating creative property, there has been a war against "piracy."”
Lawrence "Larry" Lessig is an American academic and political activist. He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications. He is a director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University and a professor of law at Harvard Law School. Prior to rejoining Harvard, he was a professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. Lessig is a founding board member of Creative Commons, a board member of the Software Freedom Law Center and a former board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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