The Future of Ideas
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(3 ratings)352 pages4 editions2002Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN 9780375726446
Intellectual propertyCopyright and electronic data processingLaw and legislationInternetInformation societyDatabeschermingSociété informatiséePropriété intellectuelleDroit d'auteur et informatiqueDroitInformatiemaatschappijAuteursrechtPropriâetâe intellectuellSociâetâe informatisâInternet, law and legislationInformation technology
About this book
In The future of ideas, Lawrence Lessig explains how the Internet revolution has produced a counterrevolution of potentially devastating power and effect. Creativity once flourished because the Net protected a commons on which innovators could experiment. But now, manipulating the law for their own purposes, corporations have established themselves as virtual gatekeepers of the Net while Congress, in the pockets of media magnates, has rewritten copyright and patent laws to stifle creativity and progress. Lessig weaves the history of technology and its relevant laws to make a lucid and accessible case to protect the sanctity of intellectual freedom. He shows how the door to a future of ideas is being shut just as technology is creating extraordinary possibilities that have implications for all of us.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- 2002
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN
- 9780375726446
- Language
- en
- Editions
- 4
About Lawrence Lessig
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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