Free Culture¶
Lessig, L. (2004). Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. Penguin Press.
Cited by¶
2 citations across 2 artifacts.
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Primes¶
- Tragedy of the Commons
- Contemporary extensions include: Global commons theory (Stern 2007 on climate as a commons; Barrett 2003 on environmental-statecraft; Nordhaus 2015 on climate clubs); Knowledge commons theory (Hess and Ostrom 2007, Understanding Knowledge as a Commons; Benkler 2006 on the wealth of networks; Lessig 2004
This sourceKnowledge commons and intellectual-property critique; argues that copyright and patent regimes create artificial commons-tragedy dynamics by restricting knowledge sharing.
- Contemporary extensions include: Global commons theory (Stern 2007 on climate as a commons; Barrett 2003 on environmental-statecraft; Nordhaus 2015 on climate clubs); Knowledge commons theory (Hess and Ostrom 2007, Understanding Knowledge as a Commons; Benkler 2006 on the wealth of networks; Lessig 2004
Domain-specific¶
- Open Availability
- The Creative Commons license family was explicitly designed to port the GPL-style open-software architecture into other knowledge-resource media.
This sourcePresents Creative Commons as the free-software (GPL-style) licensing strategy applied to culture, including a share-and-share-alike option.
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“The same strategy could be applied to culture, as a response to the increasing control effected through law and technology.”
- The Creative Commons license family was explicitly designed to port the GPL-style open-software architecture into other knowledge-resource media.
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