Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy

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Penguin, Oct 16, 2008 - Technology & Engineering - 352 pages
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. America's copyright laws have ceased to perform their original, beneficial role: protecting artists' creations while allowing them to build on previous creative works. In fact, our system now criminalizes those very actions. Remix is an urgent, eloquent plea to end a war that harms every intrepid, creative user of new technologies. It also offers an inspiring vision of the postwar world where enormous opportunities await those who view art as a resource to be shared openly rather than a commodity to be hoarded.
 

Contents

INTRODUCTION
1
CULTURES OF OUR PAST 33 338
23
CULTURES OF OUR FUTURE
34
RW REVIVED
51
CULTURES COMPARED
84
Economies
105
COMMERCIAL AND SHARING
116
Three Successes from the Internets
122
Internet Sharing Economies
155
Beyond Wikipedia
162
What Sharing Economies Share
172
ECONOMY LESSONS
225
REFORMING LAW
253
REFORMING US
274
CONCLUSION
289
Acknowledgments
295

Three Keys to These Three Successes
128
The Character of Commercial Success
141

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Lawrence Lessig is a professor at Stanford Law School and the founder of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. The author of The Future of Ideas and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, he is the chair of the Creative Commons project. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Cambridge University, and Yale Law School, he has clerked for Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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