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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
PrefaceIntroduction"PIRACY"Chapter One: Creators
Chapter Two: "Mere Copyists"
Chapter Three: Catalogs
Chapter Four: "Pirates"FilmRecorded MusicRadioCable TV
Chapter Five: "Piracy"Piracy IPiracy II
"PROPERTY"Chapter Six: Founders
Chapter Seven: Recorders
Chapter Eight: Transformers
Chapter Nine: Collectors
Chapter Ten: "Property"Why Hollywood Is RightBeginningsLaw: DurationLaw: ScopeLaw and Architecture: ReachArchitecture and Law: ForceMarket: ConcentrationTogether
"PUZZLES"Chapter Eleven: Chimera
Chapter Twelve: HarmsConstraining CreatorsConstraining InnovatorsCorrupting Citizens
"BALANCES"Chapter Thirteen: Eldred
Chapter Fourteen: Eldred II
Conclusion
AFTERWORDUs, NowRebuilding Freedoms Previously Presumed: ExamplesRebuilding Free Culture: One Idea
Them, Soon1. More FormalitiesRegistration and RenewalMarking2. Shorter Terms3. Free Use Vs. Fair Use4. Liberate the Music - Again5. Fire Lots of LawyersNotesAcknowledgments Index
