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free culture, by lawrence lessig
Monday, January 24th, 2005Free Culture, how big media uses technology and law to lock down culture and control creativity.
by Lawrence Lessig.
i guess hundreds of reviews have been written about this book, most of them by people who are more qualified to do so than i am, so i am not going to write another one. i’d just like to point out the key points this book gave me:
culture is the sum of all creative work done by the people of a community, be it a country, a continent or the entire world. creative work is (almost?) always based on the work of others, creative people take pieces of the work of others and transform them into something new by combining, changing and adding to them.
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