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Future of Ideas The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World

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ISBN-10: 0375726446

ISBN-13: 9780375726446

Edition: 2003

Authors: Lawrence Lessig

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Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/22/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Lawrence Lessig is a professor of law at the Stanford Law School. Previously Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School from 1997 to 2000 and professor at the University of Chicago Law School from 1991 to 1997, he is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Trinity College, Cambridge, and Yale Law School. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. He is a monthly columnist forThe Industry Standard,a board member of the Red Hat Center for Open Source, and the author ofCode and Other Laws of Cyberspace. From the Hardcover edition.

Preface
"Free"
Dot.Commons
Building Blocks: "Commons" and "Layers"
The Commons
Layers
Commons on the Wires
Commons Among the Wired
Commons, Wire-less
Commons Lessons
Dot.Contrast
Creativity in Real Space
Creativity in the Dark Ages
The Arts
Commerce
Innovation from the Internet
New Products from the Net
HTML Books
MP3
Film
Lyric Servers and Culture Databases
New Markets
New Means of Distribution
My.MP3
Napster
New Demand
New Participation: P2P
Dot.Control
Old vs. New
Controlling the Wires (and Hence the Code Layer)
The End-to-End in Telephones
Fat Pipe
ATandT Cable
Controlling the Wired (and Hence the Content Layer)
Increasing Control
Copyright Bots
CPHack
DeCSS
iCraveTV
MP3
Napster
Eldred
Consequences of Control
Controlling Wire-less (and Hence the Physical Layer)
What's Happening Here?
Alt. Commons
The Physical Layer
Free Spectrum
Free Highways
The Code Layer
Neutral Platforms
The Content Layer
Copyright
Patents
What Orrin Understands
Notes
Index