Is Intellectual Property Right a treat or threat?

October 14, 2004

In his most recent book, FREE CULTURE, Lawrence Lessig, one of the founders of Creative Commons, elaborates on his vision on how the big media use technology (and nowadays especially the Internet) and the law to lock down culture and creativity. In his two previous books, CODE and THE FUTURE OF IDEAS, Lessig describes what remains of the original promises of the Internet. In FREE CULTURE, he widens his focus to consider the diminishment of the larger public domain of ideas. Is our freedom