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Who's linking to this?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. And here's a BitTorrent version.
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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Average Customer Rating:
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Amazon.com Customer Comment:
Really provocative. I loved this illuminating and thought-provoking book. Lessig makes a compelling argument against extended copyright laws and other issues that may interfere with creating new projects based on derivative works.
The book was a bit repetitive but easy to read unlike his earlier book, the Future Of Ideas, which I found to be overly technical.
The Internet opens up so many vast possibilities for us to expand creative intellectual ideas but these will never materialize if we continue on our current path of making it nearly impossible to borrow from other people's works.
Lessig is imminently reasonable and has a great deal of respect for property and the rights of authors or creators. As soon as I finished reading Free Culture, I registered two of my Web blogs with Creative Comments. Now they both say "Some Rights Reserved." :-)
Sigrid Macdonald
Author of D'Amour Road
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