Larry Lessig - "The Future of Ideas"

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The Internet revolution has come. Some say it has gone. What was responsible for its birth? Who is responsible for its demise?

In The Future of Ideas, Lawrence Lessig explains how the Internet revolution has produced a counterrevolution of devastating power and effect. The explosion of innovation we have seen in the environment of the Internet was not conjured from some new, previously unimagined technological magic; instead, it came from an ideal as old as the nation. Creativity flourished there because the Internet protected an innovation commons.

The Internet’s very design built a neutral platform upon which the widest range of creators could experiment. The legal architecture surrounding it protected this free space so that culture and information–the ideas of our era–could flow freely and inspire an unprecedented breadth of expression. But this structural design is changing–both legally and technically.

The Future of Ideas is the most important work yet written about the grave threat posed to innovation and creativity in America and throughout the world. Lawrence Lessig documents the rapid and largely undebated expansion of government-granted monopolies over broad swatches of the knowledge our society relies on, and compares this with the role common access to knowledge has always played in America's vibrant culture and economy. He has written a Rosetta stone to what is a highly technical, legalistic debate that explains this trend in words the rest of us can understand. This is a debate that finds today's largest global publishing and technology corporations on one side and Thomas Jefferson, the United States Constitution, and the rest of us on the other. If you are only going to read one thought-provoking book this year, this is the one to read.

–-Bob Young, entrepreneur, cofounder and chairman of Red Hat, Inc., and the Center for the Public Domain

Glacius

I'd like to add that the first edition of this book was published in 2001.

So you have a clearer idea what the book is about, I'll paste here the Table of Contents.

1: “Free” 3
PART I : DOT. COMMONS 17
2: Building Blocks: “Commons” and “Layers” 19
The Commons 19
Layers 23
3: Commons on the Wires 26
4: Commons Among the Wired 49
5: Commons, Wire-less 73
6: Commons Lessons 85
PART I I : DOT. CONTRAST 101
7: Creativity in Real Space 103
Creativity in the Dark Ages 104
The Arts 104
CONTENT 105
PHYSICAL 110
CODE 111
Commerce 112
CODING 112
MARKETS 114
8: Innovation from the Internet 120
New Products from the Net 122
HTML Books 122
MP3 123
Film 124
Lyric Servers and Culture Databases 124
New Markets 126
New Means of Distribution 126
My.MP3 127
Napster 130
New Demand 132
New Participation: P2P 134
PART I I I : DOT. CONTROL 143
9: Old vs. New 145
10: Controlling the Wires (and Hence the Code Layer) 147
The End-to-End in Telephones 149
Fat Pipe 151
AT&T; Cable 153
11: Controlling the Wired (and Hence the Content Layer) 177
Increasing Control 180
Copyright Bots 180
CPHack 184
DeCSS 187
iCraveTV 190
MP3 192
Napster 194
Eldred 196
Consequences of Control 199
12: Controlling Wire-less (and Hence the Physical Layer) 218
13: What’s Happening Here? 234
14: Alt. Commons 240
The Physical Layer 240
Free Spectrum 241
Free Highways 244
The Code Layer 246
Neutral Platforms 246
The Content Layer 249
Copyright 250
FIVE-YEAR RENEWABLE TERMS 251
SOFTWARE COPYRIGHT 252
PROTECTINGINNOVATION 253
PROTECTINGMUSIC 254
REBUILDINGTHE CREATIVE COMMONS 255
LIMITS ONCODE 256
LIMITS ONCONTRACT 257
LIMIT COMMERCIAL EXPLOITATION 258
Patents 259
MORATORIUM 259
DAMAGES 260
REFORM 260
15: What Orrin Understands 262
Notes 269
Index 335

This book is published the year that Creative Commons was founded, yet you can find a few mentions of "Creative Commons" on the book. It seems to me this is the book that helped Larry Lessig coin the name for this wonderful licensing model. In the book you can see about other "Commons" and then it makes a lot of sense why we need a "Creative Commons" and why it's named liked that.
Glacius

I'd like to add that the first edition of this book was published in 2001.

So you have a clearer idea what the book is about, I'll paste here the Table of Contents.

1: “Free” 3
PART I : DOT. COMMONS 17
2: Building Blocks: “Commons” and “Layers” 19
The Commons 19
Layers 23
3: Commons on the Wires 26
4: Commons Among the Wired 49
5: Commons, Wire-less 73
6: Commons Lessons 85
PART I I : DOT. CONTRAST 101
7: Creativity in Real Space 103
Creativity in the Dark Ages 104
The Arts 104
CONTENT 105
PHYSICAL 110
CODE 111
Commerce 112
CODING 112
MARKETS 114
8: Innovation from the Internet 120
New Products from the Net 122
HTML Books 122
MP3 123
Film 124
Lyric Servers and Culture Databases 124
New Markets 126
New Means of Distribution 126
My.MP3 127
Napster 130
New Demand 132
New Participation: P2P 134
PART I I I : DOT. CONTROL 143
9: Old vs. New 145
10: Controlling the Wires (and Hence the Code Layer) 147
The End-to-End in Telephones 149
Fat Pipe 151
AT&T Cable 153
11: Controlling the Wired (and Hence the Content Layer) 177
Increasing Control 180
Copyright Bots 180
CPHack 184
DeCSS 187
iCraveTV 190
MP3 192
Napster 194
Eldred 196
Consequences of Control 199
12: Controlling Wire-less (and Hence the Physical Layer) 218
13: What’s Happening Here? 234
14: Alt. Commons 240
The Physical Layer 240
Free Spectrum 241
Free Highways 244
The Code Layer 246
Neutral Platforms 246
The Content Layer 249
Copyright 250
FIVE-YEAR RENEWABLE TERMS 251
SOFTWARE COPYRIGHT 252
PROTECTINGINNOVATION 253
PROTECTINGMUSIC 254
REBUILDINGTHE CREATIVE COMMONS 255
LIMITS ONCODE 256
LIMITS ONCONTRACT 257
LIMIT COMMERCIAL EXPLOITATION 258
Patents 259
MORATORIUM 259
DAMAGES 260
REFORM 260
15: What Orrin Understands 262
Notes 269
Index 335

This book is published the year that Creative Commons was founded, yet you can find a few mentions of "Creative Commons" on the book. It seems to me this is the book that helped Larry Lessig coin the name for this wonderful licensing model. In the book you can see about other "Commons" and then it makes a lot of sense why we need a "Creative Commons" and why it's named liked that.
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