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. In defense of piracy by lawrence lessig 11 october 2008 in early february 2007, stephanie lenzs monthold son started dancing. Free culture is an entertaining and important look at the past and future of the cold war between the media industry and new technologies. Lessig complained, while much of twentiethcentury culture was constructed through television, only a tiny portion of that culture is available for anyone to see today. Free culture is a movement focused on creativity and innovation, communication and free expression, public access to knowledge and civil liberties. Free culture by lawrence lessig linkedin slideshare. Whenever we comment on, say, a film or a book and discuss it with others, we take the original authors creativity and remix it in our own lives, using it to extend our own ideas or to produce an evaluation. I will focus my comments here on two of the readings we had for class this week. Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy by lawrence lessig. About free culture lawrence lessig could be called a cultural environmentalist. I used multivalent compress to do that and contents are exactly the same in both pdfs. Lawrence lessig described the remix culture in his 2008 book remix. Remix, lessigs latest book, was released friday as a free pdf by publisher bloomsbury academic under a license from creative commons, the freeculture nonprofit the.
Ro culture is important and valuable ro culture will flourish in the digital age rw culture is also important and valuable whether rw culture flourishes depends at least in part upon the law the laws current attitude is both destructive and selfdefeating to values far more important than the profits the culture industries. Other versions of the book can be found from the books remixes list. Safra center for ethics lawrence lessig taught at stanford and the university of chicago. Lawrence compared the default media culture of the 20th century to the usage of computer technology terminology as readwrite culture rw vs. Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy, by lawrence lessig the point that both authors make, which stood out most to me, has to do with audiences and interpretation. Lessig further articulates remix culture as intrinsic to technology and the internet. Lawrence lessig is currently considered a single author. This cited by count includes citations to the following articles in scholar. Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy. Remix is a very approachable read, lessing laying out the legal and economic issues in most basic style, heavy on the reallife examples. This pdf version of free culture is licensed under a creative commons license. Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy bloomsbury academic. Harvard law school professor lawrence lessig taught at stanford and the university of chicago. Free culture is available for free under a creative commons license.
Prior to rejoining the harvard faculty, lessig was a professor at stanford law school, where he founded the schools center for internet and society, and at the university of chicago. A presentation given by stanford law professor and founder of creative commons, lawrence lessig, about his book free culture. The information or product is provided by a professional source, the. How big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity. Lessig has been a proponent of the remix culture since the early 2000s. Lawrence lessig primary author only author division. A graduate of the university of pennsylvania, cambridge university, and yale law school, he has clerked for judge richard posner of the. The pdf document is a more efficiently compressed version of the pdf file available at bloomsbury academic 1. In his 2008 book remix he presents this as a desirable cultural practice distinct from piracy. Lawrence lessig, the author of code, is a professor of law, and code is emphatically a book about the law.
Lessig is a founding board member of creative commons, a board member of the software freedom law center and a former board member of the electronic frontier foundation. Sharing economies by lawrence lessig the mindful word. The text version is a handedited version from the resulting file converting pdf to text using pdftotext, a tool that comes with poppler or xpdf dont. Learning from sousa the first part of remix focuses on how we can regain today a culture of our pastamateur interactivity and creativity with expressive works, what lessig characterizes as the readwrite rw. One of americas most original and influential public intellectuals, his focus is the social dimension of creativity. Professor at harvard law school and director of harvards edmond j. Whatdeclandoesntget 335 appendix 340 notes 347 index 399 0465039146fm. For more information visit the official free culture website. Reexamining the remix by at tedxnyed, former young republican larry lessig talks about what democrats can learn about from their opposite party, considered more conservative.
Professor lessig is the author of code v2, free culture, the future of ideas and code and other laws of cyberspace, and has been a columnist for wired, red herring, and the industry standard. Never before have the cultural powers thatbe been able to exert such control. The brave new world of cyberspace and technological innovation and advancement in general brings with it a wealth of interesting consequences. From malcolm gladwell to lawrence lessig to wired and countless others its said that we live in the age of the remix. His books include remix, free culture and the future of ideas. Free culture by lawrence lessig, founder of creative. Free culture by lawrence lessig is available for free under a creative commons license. This license permits noncommercial use of this work, so long as attribution is given.
Free culture goes beyond illuminating the catastrophe to our culture of increasing regulation to show examples of how we can make a different future. You may redistribute, copy, or otherwise reuseremix this book provided that you do so for noncommercial purposes and credit professor lessig. Republic, lost how money corrupts congressand a plan to stop it. Lawrence lessig could be called a cultural environmentalist. Never before have the cultural powers thatbe been able to exert such control over what we can and. The ones marked may be different from the article in the profile. The importance of remix culture by lawrence lessig it conversations the freedom to comment on, critique and reference other peoples words, thoughts and ideas has enabled traditional broadcast democracy where journalists, commentators and critics analyses the world we live in. Read only culture ro in the usual read only media culture, the culture is consumed more or less passively. Furman professor of law and leadership at harvard law school.
The author of the future of ideas and code and other laws of cyberspace, he is the chair of the creative commons project. Former young republican larry lessig talks about what democrats can learn about from their opposite party, considered more conservative. Oscon july 24, 2002 1 creativity and innovation always builds on. The text version is a handedited version from the resulting file converting pdf to text using pdftotext, a tool. Robert scoble lawrence lessig is a professor of law at stanford law school and founder of the schools center for internet and society. You may redistribute, copy, or otherwise reuse remix this book provided that you do so for noncommercial purposes and credit professor lessig. Lawrence lessig is a professor at stanford law school and the founder of the stanford center for internet and society. Lester lawrence lessig iii born june 3, 1961 is an american academic. Food for thoughts, especially since reading it now with the distance of a few years and new business models emerging gives the reader a possible critical point of view of what has already happened, what is happening now and what the future of creative economy is shaping. The simplification can get a bit annoying though its good enough as a starting point for discussion and the anecdotes tiresome, and lessigs parenthetical asides, while amusing, make it all seem a bit. 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 socalled big media. Norwegian translation of the book free culture by lessig.
Students for free culture at berkeley is proudly hosting the free culture 2008 conference over columbus day weekend. The ecstasy of influence by jonathan lethem, and remix. The opposite of a free culture is a permission culture a culture in which creators get to create only with the permission of the powerful, or of creators from the past. Lawrence lessig on digital remix as writing lessig 2005 argues that culture as a whole can be construed as remix. Also by lawrence lessig code and other laws of cyberspace the future of ideas free culture code. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. The reigning authority on intellectual property in the internet age, lawrence lessig spotlights the newest and possibly the most harmful culture a war waged against those who create and consume art. His books include remix, free culture and the future of ideas as well as the first edition of republic, lost.