Ebook: Free Culture

Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1: Cultures -- 1: Cultures of our past -- RW culture versus RO culture -- Limits in regulation -- 2: Cultures of our future -- 3: RO, extended -- Nature remade -- Re-making nature -- Recoding us -- 4: RW, revived -- Writing beyond words -- Remixed: text -- Remixed: media -- Significance of remix -- Old in the new -- 5: Cultures compared -- Differences in value-and "values" -- Differences in value (as in $) -- Differences in value (as in "is it any good?") -- Differences in law (as in "is it allowed?") -- Lessons about cultures -- Part 2: Economies -- 6: Two economies: commercial and sharing -- Commercial economies -- Three successes from the Internet's commercial economy -- Three keys to these three successes -- Little brother -- Character of commercial success -- Sharing economies -- Internet sharing economies -- Paradigm case: Wikipedia -- Beyond Wikipedia -- What sharing economies share -- 7: Hybrid economies -- Paradigm case: free software -- Beyond free software -- 8: Economy lessons -- Parallel economies are possible -- Tools help signal which economy a creator creates for -- Crossover are growing -- Strong incentives will increasingly drive commercial entities to hybrids -- Perceptions of fairness will in part mediate the hybrid relationship between sharing and commercial economies -- Sharecropping is not likely to become a term of praise -- Hybrid can help us decriminalize youth -- Part 3: Enabling The Future -- 9: Reforming law -- 1: Deregulating amateur creativity -- 2: Clear title -- 3: Simplify -- 4: Decriminalizing the copy -- 5: Decriminalizing file sharing -- 10: Reforming us -- Chilling the control freaks -- Showing sharing -- Rediscovering the limits of regulation -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.;The reigning authority on intellectual property in the Internet age, Lawrence Lessig spotlights the newest and possibly the most harmful culture war'a war waged against those who create and consume art. America's copyright laws have ceased to perform their original, beneficial role: protecting artists' creations while allowing them to build on previous creative works. In fact, our system now criminalizes those very actions. Remix is an urgent, eloquent plea to end a war that harms every intrepid, creative user of new technologies. It also offers an inspiring vision of the postwar world where enormous opportunities await those who view art as a resource to be shared openly rather than a commodity to be hoarded.