Free Culture (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Lawrence Lessig
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Current affairs, law, and media
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs, Law and jurisprudence
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Twenty-first century, Law or legislation, Lawyers, Property, Mass media, Information science or systems, Computers, Internet, Courts or courtrooms
In Henry VI, Part II (c. 1590-1591), William Shakespeare describes a plot being hatched by a group of commoners against the English nobility. In outlining the rebels’ plan of attack, Dick the Butcher delivers a line that has taken on a life outside what is otherwise a minor drama. “The first thing we do,” he says, “let's kill all the lawyers.”
That might well have served as an epithet for attorney Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture, for lawyers are first among the cast of villains identified as the modern enemies of creativity. Lessig's third book on...
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