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How Much Does a Free Market Cost?
Read the latest book by Lawrence Lessig. It can be downloaded for free at Amazon: Free Culture: How BigMedia Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. (Amazon says it will only be freely available for a limited time. I’m not sure why; it’s not as though their going to run out of files, but that’s the way it is.) It’s a pretty meaty title, so what can I add, except that unless you want to live in a world of 24/7 reality tv, you will pay attention to the dominance of companies like Time Warner, AOL, Netscape, Time, Time Warner Cable, Time Warner Books, HBO, New LineCinema, Turner Broadcasting, Warner Bros. Entertainment…(oops, those are all one company. Ironically, I suppose, they also own MAD magazine).
Here is a link to the NY Times article about it: ”Free Culture:The Intellectual Imperialists.
“The shrinking of the public domain, and the devastation it threatens to the culture, are the subject of a powerfully argued and important analysis by Lawrence Lessig, a professor at Stanford Law School and a leading member of a group of theorists and grass-roots activists, sometimes called the ‘’copyleft,’’who have been crusading against the increasing expansion of copyright protections. Lessig was the chief lawyer in a noble, but ultimately unsuccessful, Supreme Court challenge to the copyright extension act.’’Free Culture’’ is partly a final appeal to the court of public opinion and partly a call to arms.”
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