Free Culture Books ; CULTURE & ART Author: Lawrence Lessing Title: Free Culture Publisher: "Pragmatics of Culture", Moscow, 2007 Pages: 272 Format: pdf Size: 1.33 Mb (+3%), How Media Concerns Use Technology and Laws to Smother Culture and Control Creativity. Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture is a world bestseller translated into many languages. In terms of its influence, this book is comparable to the works of E. Toffler, however, reflects an entirely new era in the brief history of the information age. The author, an outstanding lawyer and public figure, shows how the modern offensive of content and media corporations destroys the foundations of technological progress, individual rights and civic values. Lawrence Lessig offers an effective alternative to the current copyright system, which allows the preservation and development of the common cultural heritage in the conditions of the coming dictatorship of “intellectual property”. The book is not just a sad story of the transformation of liberal American copyright into a police, but also an apology for the personal war with the copyright industry and the legal ulcer of America Lawrence Lessig is among the 50 most influential people on the Internet. Recognized as his most important status in the field of Internet battles, Wired magazine once called him "Elvis of the cyber era", and according to the merits of Lawrence Lessig is a professor at Stanford University, head of the Department of Jurisprudence, and the founder of Creative Commons (CC), a non-profit organization that provides a free licensing system on the Internet.