Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity pdf

Lawrence Lessig es profesor Roy L. Furman de Derecho y Liderazgo en la Facultad de Derecho de Harvard. Antes de regresar a Harvard, enseñó en la Facultad de Derecho de Stanford, donde fundó el Centro para Internet y la Sociedad, y en la Universidad de Chicago. Fue secretario del juez Richard Posner en la Corte de Apelaciones del Séptimo Circuito y del juez Antonin Scalia en la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos. Lessig es la fundadora de Equal Citizens y miembro fundador de la junta directiva de Creative Commons, y es miembro de la Junta científica de AXA Research Fund. Miembro de la Academia Estadounidense de las Artes y las Ciencias y de la Sociedad Filosófica Estadounidense, ha recibido numerosos premios, incluidos Webby, el Premio a la Libertad de la Fundación de Software Libre, el Premio Scientific American 50 y el Premio Fastcase 50. Una vez citado por The New Yorker como “el pensador más importante sobre la propiedad intelectual en la era de Internet”, Lessig ha cambiado su enfoque de la ley y la tecnología a la “corrupción institucional”, relaciones que, si bien son legales, debilitan la confianza pública en una institución, especialmente ya que eso afecta la democracia. Lessig tiene una licenciatura en economía y una licenciatura en administración de la Universidad de Pensilvania, una maestría en filosofía de la Universidad de Cambridge y un doctorado en leyes de Yale.

Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity pdf por Lawrence Lessig

A landmark manifesto about the genuine closing of the American mind. Lawrence Lessig could be called a cultural environmentalist. One of America's most original and influential public intellectuals, his focus is the social dimension of creativity: how creative work builds on the past and how society encourages or inhibits that building with laws and technologies. In his two previous books, Code and The Future of Ideas, Lessig concentrated on the destruction of much of the original promise of the Internet. Now, in Free Culture, he widens his focus to consider the diminishment of the larger public domain of ideas. In this powerful wake-up call he shows how short-sighted interests blind to the long-term damage they're inflicting are poisoning the ecosystem that fosters innovation. All creative works-books, movies, records, software, and so on-are a compromise between what can be imagined and what is possible-technologically and legally. For more than two hundred years, laws in America have sought a balance between rewarding creativity and allowing the borrowing from which new creativity springs. The original term of copyright set by the Constitution in 1787 was seventeen years. Now it is closer to two hundred. Thomas Jefferson considered protecting the public against overly long monopolies on creative works an essential government role. What did he know that we've forgotten? Lawrence Lessig shows us that while new technologies always lead to new laws, never before have the big cultural monopolists used the fear created by new technologies, specifically the Internet, to shrink the public domain of ideas, even as the same corporations use the same technologies to control more and more what we can and can't do with culture. As more and more culture becomes digitized, more and more becomes controllable, even as laws are being toughened at the behest of the big media groups. What's at stake is our freedom-freedom to create, freedom to build, and ultimately, freedom to imagine.