The Future Of Ideas

The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World

By: Lawrence Lessig

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Paperback | 15 November 2002 | Edition Number 1

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The Internet revolution has come. Some say it has gone. In The Future of Ideas, Lawrence Lessig explains how the revolution has produced a counterrevolution of potentially devastating power and effect. Creativity once flourished because the Net protected a commons on which widest range of innovators could experiment. But now, manipulating the law for their own purposes, corporations have established themselves as virtual gatekeepers of the Net while Congress, in the pockets of media magnates, has rewritten copyright and patent laws to stifle creativity and progress.

Lessig weaves the history of technology and its relevant laws to make a lucid and accessible case to protect the sanctity of intellectual freedom. He shows how the door to a future of ideas is being shut just as technology is creating extraordinary possibilities that have implications for all of us. Vital, eloquent, judicious and forthright, The Future of Ideas is a call to arms that we can ill afford to ignore.

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"A manifesto that shakes you up, making you aware of how much is lost when a culture turns 'ideas' into 'intellectual property.'" - The New York Times Book Review

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Preface
"Free"	p. 3
Dot.Commons	p. 17
Building Blocks: "Commons" and "Layers"	p. 19
The Commons	p. 19
Layers	p. 23
Commons on the Wires	p. 26
Commons Among the Wired	p. 49
Commons, Wire-less	p. 73
Commons Lessons	p. 85
Dot.Contrast	p. 101
Creativity in Real Space	p. 103
Creativity in the Dark Ages	p. 104
The Arts	p. 104
Commerce	p. 112
Innovation from the Internet	p. 120
New Products from the Net	p. 122
HTML Books	p. 122
MP3	p. 123
Film	p. 124
Lyric Servers and Culture Databases	p. 124
New Markets	p. 126
New Means of Distribution	p. 126
My.MP3	p. 127
Napster	p. 130
New Demand	p. 132
New Participation: P2P	p. 134
Dot.Control	p. 143
Old vs. New	p. 145
Controlling the Wires (and Hence the Code Layer)	p. 147
The End-to-End in Telephones	p. 149
Fat Pipe	p. 151
ATandT Cable	p. 153
Controlling the Wired (and Hence the Content Layer)	p. 177
Increasing Control	p. 180
Copyright Bots	p. 180
CPHack	p. 184
DeCSS	p. 187
iCraveTV	p. 190
MP3	p. 192
Napster	p. 194
Eldred	p. 196
Consequences of Control	p. 199
Controlling Wire-less (and Hence the Physical Layer)	p. 218
What's Happening Here?	p. 234
Alt. Commons	p. 240
The Physical Layer	p. 240
Free Spectrum	p. 241
Free Highways	p. 244
The Code Layer	p. 246
Neutral Platforms	p. 246
The Content Layer	p. 249
Copyright	p. 250
Patents	p. 259
What Orrin Understands	p. 262
Notes	p. 269
Index	p. 335
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