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+"https://titanpad.com/PNLv6jIhPK How big media uses technology and the law to "
+"lock down culture and control creativity. \"Free Culture is an entertaining "
+"and important look at the past and future of the cold war between the media "
+"industry and new technologies.\" \"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.'\" Lawrence Lessig, “the most "
+"important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era” (The New "
+"Yorker), masterfully argues that never before in human history has the power "
+"to control creative progress been so concentrated in the hands of the "
+"powerful few, the so-called Big Media. Never before have the cultural "
+"powers- that-be been able to exert such control over what we can and can’t "
+"do with the culture around us. Our society defends free markets and free "
+"speech; why then does it permit such top-down control? To lose our long "
+"tradition of free culture, Lawrence Lessig shows us, is to lose our freedom "
+"to create, our freedom to build, and, ultimately, our freedom to imagine."
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