X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/text-free-culture-lessig.git/blobdiff_plain/f3d67fe0535131eb68f9e6815b05f03935a62d4b..32c59f0447506560a48b0eae94264c5767e36782:/cover-text.xml diff --git a/cover-text.xml b/cover-text.xml index 1235732..7d9b716 100644 --- a/cover-text.xml +++ b/cover-text.xml @@ -31,6 +31,17 @@ media industry and new technologies. — Marc Andreessen, cofounder of Netscape + +Free Culture goes beyond illuminating +the catastrophe to our culture of increasing regulation to show +examples of how we can make a different future. These new-style heroes +and examples are rooted in the traditions of the founding fathers in +ways that seem obvious after reading this book. Recommended reading to +those trying to unravel the shrill hype around intellectual +property.Brewster Kahle, founder of the +Internet Archive + + America needs a national conversation about the way in which so-called intellectual property rights have come to @@ -40,7 +51,7 @@ music, and movies, now has a veto over technological innovation and has halted most contributions to the public domain from which so many have benefited. The patent system has spun out of control, giving enormous power to entrenched interests, and even trademarks are being -misused. Lawrence Lessig's latest book is essential reading for anyone +misused. Lawrence Lessig's book is essential reading for anyone who want to join this conversation. He explains how technology and the law are robbing us of the public domain; but for all his educated pessimism, Professor Lessig offers some solutions, too, because he @@ -51,13 +62,11 @@ an book on the collision of media and technology -Free Culture goes beyond illuminating -the catastrophe to our culture of increasing regulation to show -examples of how we can make a different future. These new-style heroes -and examples are rooted in the traditions of the founding fathers in -ways that seem obvious after reading this book. Recommended reading to -those trying to unravel the shrill hype around intellectual -property.Brewster Kahle, founder of the -Internet Archive +Published by Petter Reinholdtsen. + + +Photo: ActuaLitté CC BY-SA 2.0 from Wikimedia + +