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Record Nr.

UNINA9910597896903321

Autore

Lessig Lawrence

Titolo

Remix : making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy / / Lawrence Lessig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Bloomsbury, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

1-4081-1393-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (414 p.)

Disciplina

346.730482

Soggetti

Law

Copyright - Economic aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

REMIX; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE: CULTURES; ONE: CULTURES OF OUR PAST; TWO: CULTURES OF OUR FUTURE; THREE: RO, EXTENDED; FOUR: RW, REVIVED; FIVE: CULTURES COMPARED; PART TWO: ECONOMIES; SIX: TWO ECONOMIES: COMMERCIAL AND SHARING; SEVEN: HYBRID ECONOMIES; EIGHT: ECONOMY LESSONS; PART THREE: ENABLING THE FUTURE; NINE: REFORMING LAW; TEN: REFORMING US; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Lawrence Lessig, the reigning authority on intellectual property in the Internet age, spotlights the newest and possibly the most harmful culture war-a war waged against our children and others who create and consume art. 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 criminalises those very actions. By embracing "read-write culture," which allows its users to create art as readily as they consume it, we can ensure that creators get the support-artistic, commer