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AKMA asked, "Anyone feel like recording a chapter of Lawrence Lessig's new book?" Joi Ito then said, "What a great idea!" In less than 24 hours, this idea mushroomed into a significant collaboration by a team of bloggers and others to record and publish all of Larry's book.
Here is our contribution, Chapter One: Creators, recorded by IT Conversations host Doug Kaye. Visit AKMA's web site for links to additional chapters of Larry's book recorded by others. Scott Matthews has also compiled a convenient archive.
Like all of the content here on IT Conversations, this recording is available under a Creative Commons license.
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Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity
by Lawrence Lessig
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4.18
Amazon.com Customer Comment:
Enlightening. In a world dominated by "ideas" (images, sounds, text, drugs, algorithms, etc.), it is (perhaps) surprising that the ongoing struggle over the control of "intellectual property" has essentially no presence in the public consciousness. Knowing perhaps a little more about copyright than the average newspaper reader, I found Free Culture eye-opening and occasionally shocking. Lessig provides a very readable overview of the issues and history surrounding copyright, including an inside look at his efforts to have the Supreme Court rule Congress' continual copyright extensions unconstitutional (Eldred v. Ashcroft). The strength of Free Culture is the anecdotes it presents, from 18th century publishers trying to keep Shakespeare out of the public domain to a modern corporation trying to keep Mickey Mouse out of the public domain, with minimal bias but the clear message that things are going wrong. While Free Culture is weak in spots, it may well change the way you think about intellectual property. You can even download the book for free!
Lessig falters when proposing solutions to the current crisis, which are weak and/or underdeveloped. He also occasionally displays his loony-left politics with misplaced analogies; I found his references to gun control and the war on drugs especially out of place, even misleading.
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» Let’s Start Something (from AKMA’s Random Thoughts) |
Anyone feel like recording a chapter of Lawrence Lessig’s new book? The license pretty clearly indicates that, so long as we’re not making a commercial venture of it, we can make a recording of (“perform”) the text. There are a ... [Read More...] |
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Tracked March 27, 2004 08:01AM |
» Free Culture spoken (from Lessig Blog) |
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Tracked March 27, 2004 10:44AM |
» Hate to Read? Love to Listen? (from SOLID HANG | BLOG) |
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Tracked March 27, 2004 12:39PM |
» Preliminary Aftermath (from AKMA’s Random Thoughts) |
The Lessig Read-a-thon (as David Weinberger called it in an email) has taken off. The main post below will be the center of activity — it’ll keep life a little simpler if no one needs to hop around from URI to URI looking for news — b... [Read More...] |
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Tracked March 28, 2004 09:22AM |
» Recording Free Culture (from Unicast) |
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» Lessig Read-a-Thon (from Liloia.com) |
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Tracked March 29, 2004 08:11AM |
» How Was Your Weekend? (from AKMA’s Random Thoughts) |
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Tracked March 29, 2004 09:26PM |
» Audio Allowed! (from Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog) |
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Tracked April 2, 2004 09:34AM |
» Verteiltes Hörbuch-Bauen: Lawrence Lessigs "Free Culture" (from Das E-Business Weblog) |
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» Who Controls My Movies (from Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog) |
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