Free culture

the nature and future of creativity

345 pages

English language

Published Nov. 8, 2005 by Penguin Books.

ISBN:
978-0-14-303465-0
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4 stars (15 reviews)

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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Importante y al mismo tiempo un poquitin frustrante

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Me encuentro increíblemente de acuerdo con todos los argumentos de Lessig, y sorprendido con sus predicciones sobre el futuro (que, siendo que las hizo en 2002, es ahora y se volvieron reales). Creo que es muy importante repoblar el dominio público y quitarle poder al copyright, y soy un gran fan de Creative Commons. Sin embargo me siento frustrado en muchas ocasiones con lo suave que Lessig es al criticar a su gobierno (que según él no es nada corrupto a nivel federal) y a la cultura corporativa que ha llevado a los EEUU, Norteamérica y al mundo al estado actual de destrucción ambiental y a estar subyugados al control mediático de unas cuantas compañías. Las critica pero al mismo tiempo las excusa, y aunque en general su discurso tira al anticorporativismo, no parece poder comprometerse con esa visión, y por lo tanto su retórica da la impresión de ser …

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Available to listen to -- free -- in mp3 format:
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The illustrative stories that begin every chapter are fascinating. Anyone who understands analogies and cares about our culture will be puzzled about the new expansions of copyright until decades after an creator's death, apparently because of the influence of a few lobbyists, like Sonny Bono's suddenly bereaved and very sympathetic widow and the apparently "charming" Jack Valenti.

But even more frustrating than companies like Disney trying to kill the public domain access that Disney was founded on, are stories of organizations like the RIAA and MPAA trying to outlaw technology to protect their outdated business models.

I started listening to this book with that "homework" feeling, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that I enjoyed the whole thing.

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Subjects

  • Intellectual property -- United States.
  • Mass media -- United States.
  • Technological innovations -- United States.
  • Art -- United States.

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