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“How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity”

This is the book that underpins the philosophy of why giving away your entire book for free on the Net is a good thing. The website is a model every other writer should follow to promote their own book - clean, simple, and with the book available in a variety of electronic formats.

That aside, it’s also an important book whichever way you read it, because it recognises the lockdown of our supposedly ever more free culture. Here’s the book blurb:

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.

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