Free Culture (Media Locking Down Culture & Controlling Creativity)

Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity By Lawrence Lessig.

Amazon.com wrote:

Examines the destruction of the larger public domain of ideas, assessing the creative and innovative repercussions of America's long terms of copyright, as well as the impact of new technologies, big media, and cultural monopolies on our freedom to create, construct, and imagine.

From the jacket:

"FREE CULTURE is an entertaining and important look at the past and future of the cold war between the media industry and new technologies."
-- Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape

"The twenty-first century could be the century of unprecedented creativity, but only if we embrace the brilliantly articulated messages in Lawrence Lessig's FREE CULTURE. This book is beautifully written, crisply argued, and deeply provocative. Please read it!"
-- John Seely Brown, coauthor of THE SOCIAL LIFE OF INFORMATION and former Chief Scientist, Xerox PARC

"America needs a national conversation about the way in which so-called 'intellectual property rights' have come to dominate the rights of scholars, researchers, and everyday citizens. A copyright cartel, bidding for absolute control over digital worlds, music, and movies, now has a veto over technological innovation and has halted most contributions to the public domain from which so many have benefited. The patent system has spun out of control, giving enormous power to entrenched interests, and even trademarks are being misused. Lawrence Lessig's latest book is essential reading for anyone who want to join this conversation. He explains how technology and the law are robbing us of the public domain; but for all his educated pessimism, Professor Lessig offers some solutions, too, because he recognizes that technology can be the catalyst for freedom. If you care about the future of innovation, read this book."
-- Dan Gillmor, author of MAKING THE NEWS, an upcoming book on the collision of media and technology

"FREE CULTURE goes beyond illuminating the catastrophe to our culture of increasing regulation to show examples of how we can make a different future. These new-style heroes and examples are rooted in the traditions of the founding fathers in ways that seem obvious after reading this book. Recommended reading to those trying to unravel the shrill hype around 'intellectual property.'"
-- Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive

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CONTENTS
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PREFACE xiii
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INTRODUCTION 1
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“PIRACY” p15
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CHAPTER ONE:
...............Creators 21

CHAPTER TWO:
...............“Mere Copyists” 31

CHAPTER THREE:
...............Catalogues 48

CHAPTER FOUR:
...............“Pirates” 53
...............Film 53
...............Recorded Music 55
...............Radio 58
...............Cable TV 59

CHAPTER FIVE:
...............“Piracy” 62
...............Piracy I 63
...............Piracy II 66

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“PROPERTY” p81
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CHAPTER SIX:
...............Founders 85

CHAPTER SEVEN:
...............Recorders 95

CHAPTER EIGHT:
...............Transformers 100

CHAPTER NINE:
...............Collectors 108

CHAPTER TEN:
...............“Property” 116
...............Why Hollywood Is Right 124
...............Beginnings 130
...............Law: Duration 133
...............Law: Scope 136
...............Law and Architecture: Reach 139
...............Architecture and Law: Force 147
...............Market: Concentration 161
...............Together 168

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PUZZLES p175
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CHAPTER ELEVEN:
...............Chimera 177

CHAPTER TWELVE:
...............Harms 183
...............Constraining Creators 184
...............Constraining Innovators 188
...............Corrupting Citizens 199

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BALANCES p209
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN:
...............Eldred 213

CHAPTER FOURTEEN:
...............Eldred II 248

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CONCLUSION p257
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AFTERWORD p273
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...............Us, Now 276

...............Rebuilding Freedoms Previously Presumed: Examples 277

...............Rebuilding Free Culture: One Idea 282

...............Them, Soon 287
............1. More Formalities 287
...............Registration and Renewal 289
...............Marking 290
............2. Shorter Terms 292
............3. Free Use Vs. Fair Use 294
............4. Liberate the Music—Again 296
............5. Fire Lots of Lawyers 304

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NOTES 307
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 331
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INDEX 333
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Website (where you can download this book) - http://www.free-culture.cc/
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