Free Culture: How big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity by Lawrence Lessig, Penguin, $24.95, ISBN 1594200068 Reviewed by Kurt Kleiner
THE internet was supposed to unleash the creativity of the masses. Instead, Lawrence Lessig argues in Free Culture, it has prompted a backlash from the entertainment industry that threatens to limit creative expression not only online, but also in the “real” world.
Lessig, a professor at Stanford Law School, has assumed the dual tasks of, first, convincing people that there is a war on, and then getting them to join his side.…
