Abstract
Larry Lessig's book, Free Culture, explains the copyright law's effect on creativity and large corporations' effect on copyright laws. The book covers the history of copyright and its expansion from books to music, picture and videos. Lessig documents the concentration of media ownership and the expansion of intellectual property's protected area, which work to put increasingly more creative output in the hands of fewer organizations. He follows the various changes in the copyright law, the way people could use existing ideas in the past, and the difficulties in using even trival quotations from other works today.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 76-78 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | IEEE Security and Privacy |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - May 2004 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Law