“Free Culture” by Lawrence Lessig (2004).

Read Introduction, Conclusion

Lessig argues that technology and the internet have, in the hands of big media, become a means of making culture less open rather than more open. How could such practices be successful given the internet’s generative architecture and allergy to centralized control? Have these qualities been appropriated by corporate interests?

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