The Future of Ideas

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The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World

Lawrence Lessig

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Random House USA Inc
15 November 2002

Social issues & processes; Politics & government; Intellectual property law; Impact of science & technology on society

The Internet revolution has come. Some say it has gone. In The Future of Ideas, Lawrence Lessig explains how the revolution has produced a counterrevolution of potentially devastating power and effect. Creativity once flourished because the Net protected a commons on which widest range of innovators could experiment. But now, manipulating the law for their own purposes, corporations have established themselves as virtual gatekeepers of the Net while Congress, in the pockets of media magnates, has rewritten copyright and patent laws to stifle creativity and progress.

Lessig weaves the history of technology and its relevant laws to make a lucid and accessible case to protect the sanctity of intellectual freedom. He shows how the door to a future of ideas is being shut just as technology is creating extraordinary possibilities that have implications for all of us. Vital, eloquent, judicious and forthright, The Future of Ideas is a call to arms that we can ill afford to ignore.

By: Lawrence Lessig
Imprint: Random House USA Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 201mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 295g
ISBN: 9780375726446
ISBN 10: 0375726446
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 15 November 2002
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lawrence Lessig is a professor of law at the Stanford Law School. Previously Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School from 1997 to 2000 and professor at the University of Chicago Law School from 1991 to 1997, he is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Trinity College, Cambridge, and Yale Law School.

Reviews for The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World

A manifesto that shakes you up, making you aware of how much is lost when a culture turns 'ideas' into 'intellectual property.' - The New York Times Book Review