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Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity (2004) is a book by law professor Lawrence Lessig that was released on the Internet under the Creative Commons Attribution/Non-commercial license (by-nc 1.0) on March 25, 2004. The printed version of the book was published by Penguin Books under full copyright. free culture cover; fair use, also licensed under the Creative Commons attribution/non-commercial (by-nc) license. ...
free culture cover; fair use, also licensed under the Creative Commons attribution/non-commercial (by-nc) license. ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Lawrence Lessig Lawrence Lessig (born June 3, 1961) is an American academic. ...
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March 25 is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (85th in leap years). ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Penguin Books is a British publisher founded in 1935 by Allen Lane. ...
"There has never been a time in history when more of our "culture" was as "owned" as it is now. And yet there has never been a time when the concentration of power to control the uses of culture has been as unquestioningly accepted as it is now." (pg. 28)
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In the preface of Free Culture, Lessig compares the book with a previous book of his, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, which propounded that software has the effect of law. Free Culture's message is different, Lessig writes, because it is "about the consequence of the Internet to a part of our tradition that is much more fundamental, and, as hard as this is for a geek-wanna-be to admit, much more important." (pg. xiv) Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (2000) is a book by Lawrence Lessig. ...
Professor Lessig analyzes the tension that exists between the concepts of piracy and property in the intellectual property realm in the context of what he calls the present "depressingly compromised process of making law" that has been captured in most nations by multinational corporations that are interested in the accumulation of capital and not the free exchange of ideas. The flag of 18th-century pirate Calico Jack This article is about sea piracy; for other uses of Piracy or Pirate, see Pirate (disambiguation). ...
// Use of the term In common usage, property means ones own thing and refers to the relationship between individuals and the objects which they see as being their own to dispense with as they see fit. ...
In law, intellectual property (IP) is an umbrella term for various legal entitlements which attach to certain types of information, ideas, or other intangibles in their expressed form. ...
The book also chronicles his prosecution of the Eldred v. Ashcroft case and his attempt to develop the Eldred Act also known as the Public Domain Enhancement Act or the Copyright Deregulation Act. Eldred v. ...
In the Federal Government of the United States, the Public Domain Enhancement Act (House Bill 2601) (PDEA) is a bill proposed in the United States Congress which, if passed, would add a tax for copyrighted works to retain their copyright status. ...
Lessig concludes his book by suggestion that as society evolves into an information society there is a choice to be made to decide if that society is to be free or feudal in nature. In his afterword he suggests that free software pioneer Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation model of making content available is not against the capitalist approach that has allowed such corporate models as Westlaw and LexisNexis to have subscribers to pay for materials that are essentially in the public domain but with underlying licenses like those created by his organization Creative Commons. This article is about a new type of society called an Information Society. ...
Gratis versus Libre is the distinction between no cost and freedom, a distiction not made by the word free. ...
Feudalism comes from the Late Latin word feudum, itself borrowed from a Germanic root *fehu, a commonly used term in the Middle Ages which means fief, or land held under certain obligations by feodati. ...
This article is about free software as defined by the sociopolitical free software movement; for information on software distributed without charge, see freeware. ...
Richard Matthew Stallman (frequently abbreviated to RMS) (born March 16, 1953) is the founder of the free software movement, the GNU Project, the Free Software Foundation, and the League for Programming Freedom. ...
The Free Software Foundation logo The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit organization founded in October 1985 by Richard Stallman to support the free software movement (free as in freedom), and in particular the GNU project. ...
The examples and perspective in this article do not represent a worldwide view. ...
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The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ...
He also argues for the creation of shorter renewable periods of copyright and a limitation on derivative rights, such as limiting a publisher's ability to stop the publication of copies of an author's book on the internet for non-commercial purposes or create a compulsory licensing scheme to ensure that creators obtain direct royalties for their works based upon their usage statistics and some kind of taxation scheme such as suggested by professor William Fisher of Harvard Law School [1] that is similar to a longstanding proposal of Richard Stallman. A statutory license or compulsory license is a copyright license to use content under reasonable and non-discriminatory terms. ...
People named William Fisher William Frederick Fisher, American astronaut William Wordsworth Fisher, British admiral William W. Fisher III, Ph. ...
Harvard Law School (HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. ...
Derivative Works A day after the book was released online, AKMA, the author of a popular blog [2], suggested that people pick a chapter and make a voice recording of it [3], in part just because they could under its license. Two days later, most of the book had been narrated. Compiled playlists can be found on AKMA's site, among others [4].
Besides audio production, this book was also translated into Chinese, in a wiki system[5]. This was a collaboration involving many bloggers from mainland China and Taiwan, and was first proposed by Isaac Mao[6], a famous China-based blogger and advocate of Creative Commons. Isaac Mao is one of the pioneers of Web logs in the Peoples Republic of China. ...
Editions - US 1st hardcover edition: ISBN 1-59420-006-8
- US 1st paperback edition: ISBN 0-14-303465-0
Organisations Some of the organisations working to a common goal of promoting free culture: - FreeCulture.org is an international student organization promoting free culture.
- Creative Commons is a nonprofit that offers a flexible copyright for creative work.
- CNUK Media Foundation is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of free culture and provides a workspace to the free culture community.
- Remix Commons is a network of free culture projects with a local focus in the UK
- Libervis.com is a project of building a free culture community online.
- Intellectual Property & Social Justice is a student group at UC Davis School of Law that seeks to integrate free culture with social, economic, and distributive justice.
- Libre Society is a group of researchers into Free Culture and have produced a controversial manifesto for Libre Culture.
The Free Culture movement is a social movement that promotes the free distribution of creative works on the Internet as well as other mediums, and objects to overly restrictive copyright laws, which members of the movement argue, hinder creativity. ...
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The Libre Society is a radical artistic and cultural movement that is committed to releasing free/libre/open-source art, music and literature. ...
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