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Culture updated 30 April 2007
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. Wikipedia
article
The free culture movement is a social movement that promotes the freedom
to distribute and modify creative works, using the Internet
as well as other media, and objects to overly restrictive copyright
laws, which many members of the movement also argue hinder
creativity.
Closely associated with the free culture movement are
organizations in
the free software movement, such as the
Free Software Foundation. Wikipedia
article
Creative Commons
Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists,
artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the
freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright
terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved." We're
a nonprofit organization. Everything we do — including the software we
create — is free. Wikipedia article
Audio Recording of Free Culture* by Lawrence Lessig:
(read by various volunteers - some are easier to hear than
others)
This audio book is
available under the terms of a Creative Commons license as stated below:
* Free Culture,
Lawrence Lessig, February 22, 2005, Penguin, ISBN-10:
0143034650, ISBN-13: 978-0143034650 (also
available on Amazon.com)
FREE CULTURE is available for free under a Creative
Commons license.
You may redistribute, copy, or otherwise reuse/remix this book provided
that you do so for non-commercial purposes and credit Professor Lessig.
per, Attribution-NonCommercial
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