books that intrigue me at bookstores in Austin on March 29 2007
Discover intriguing books at Austin bookstores from March 2007, featuring Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig and more curated social science picks for curious readers.
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Free Culture
by Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig, “the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era” (The New Yorker), masterfully argues that never before in human history has the power to control creative progress been so concentrated in the hands of the powerful few, the so-called Big Media. Never before have the cultural powers- that-be been able to exert such control over what we can and can’t do with the culture around us. Our society defends free markets and free speech; why then does it permit such top-down control? To lose our long tradition of free culture, Lawrence Lessig shows us, is to lose our freedom to create, our freedom to build, and, ultimately, our freedom to imagine.
