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

Lawrence Lessig est titulaire de la chaire Roy L. Furman de droit et de leadership à la Harvard Law School. Avant de retourner à Harvard, il a enseigné à la Stanford Law School, où il a fondé le Center for Internet and Society, et à l'Université de Chicago. Il a été greffier du juge Richard Posner à la Cour d'appel du 7e circuit et du juge Antonin Scalia à la Cour suprême des États-Unis. Lessig est le fondateur d'Equal Citizens et membre fondateur du conseil d'administration de Creative Commons, et siège au conseil scientifique d'AXA Research Fund. Membre de l'American Academy of Arts and Sciences et de l'American Philosophical Society, il a reçu de nombreux prix, dont un Webby, le Free Software Foundation's Freedom Award, le Scientific American 50 Award et le Fastcase 50 Award. Autrefois cité par le New Yorker comme « le penseur le plus important en matière de propriété intellectuelle à l'ère d'Internet », Lessig s'est concentré du droit et de la technologie sur la « corruption institutionnelle » - des relations qui, bien que légales, affaiblissent la confiance du public dans une institution - en particulier car cela affecte la démocratie. Lessig est titulaire d'un BA en économie et d'un BS en gestion de l'Université de Pennsylvanie, d'une maîtrise en philosophie de l'Université de Cambridge et d'un JD de Yale.

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