Lawrence Lessig

En contra de los primeros visionarios de la Red y de su utopía de una Internet completamente libre e irregulable, el ciberespacio está a punto de convertirse en «el lugar más regulado que hayamos con

Parece que fue ayer cuando saltó a primera plana el conflicto en torno a los derechos de autor en internet. Y sin embargo, llevamos ya más de quince años inmersos en él. En este tiempo apenas hemos visto evolucionar a una industria de contenidos anclada en estructuras predigitales, pero si a toda una generacion que se ha criado compartiendo y remezclando materiales... y siendo criminalizada por ello. Lawrence Lessig, señala que semejante daño colateral deja bien a las claras el alto coste que nuestra cultura, pero tambien nuestra economia, esta asumiendo en esta guerra del copyright.He aqui el punto de partida de Remix, el apasionado alegato final con que Lessig concluye su dilatada defensa de los commons creativos frente a los cercamientos privativos. Como tal, la obra se orienta primordialmente a persuadirnos de los multiples valores (incluidos, de nuevo, los economicos) que hay en juego en este conflicto. De ahi la sintesis que de ella ofrece el propio Lessig: Nuestro pasado nos enseña el valor del remix, una leccion que necesitamos reaprender. Nuestro presente nos enseña el potencial de una nueva economia hibrida, en la que las entidades comerciales saquen partido de las economias de la comparticion. Un futuro asi beneficiara tanto al comercio como a las comunidades.Lawrence Lessig ocupa actualme...

Existe la creencia de que el ciberespacio no puede ser regulado; que es, en esencia, inmune al control del Estado o de cualquier otro agente. Lawrence Lessing afirma, sin embargo, que esta convicción es falsa. Nosotros podemos, y debemos, decidir el tipo de ciberespacio que deseamos tener, las libertades que este habra de garantizar, y quienes se encargaran de controlarlo. En este contexto, el codigo -el software y el hardware- se convierte en las mas significativa forma de ley, y queda en manos de los juristas, los legisladores y los ciudadanos la decision sobre los principios que este encarnara. Encuadernacion: Cartone.

En estas páginas, se describe un recorrido histórico singular que está transformado el antiguo régimen de la cultura (libre), en el que la práctica totalidad de los conocimientos y de los bienes culturales estaban disponibles para animar nuevas innovaciones, a una cultura del permiso y de la restriccion.

Theres a common belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated-that it is, in its very essence, immune from the governments (or anyone elses) control. Code, first published in 2000, argues that this belief is wrong. It is not in the nature of cyberspace to be unregulable; cyberspace has no "nature." It only has code-the software and hardware that make cyberspace what it is. That code can create a place of freedom-as the original architecture of the Net did-or a place of oppressive control. Under the influence of commerce, cyberspace is becoming a highly regulable space, where behavior is much more tightly controlled than in real space. But thats not inevitable either. We can-we must-choose what kind of cyberspace we want and what freedoms we will guarantee. These choices are all about architecture: about what kind of code will govern cyberspace, and who will control it. In this realm, code is the most significant form of law, and it is up to lawyers, policymakers, and especially citizens to decide what values that code embodies. Since its original publication, this seminal book has earned the status of a minor classic. This second edition, or Version 2.0, has been prepared through the authors wiki, a web site that allows readers to edit the text, making this the first reader-edited revision of a popular book.

L’hostilité de Lawrence Lessig à l’égard des dérives monopolistisques et des excès de la réglementation, notamment celle du droit d’auteur, ne se fonde pas sur des présupposés idéologiques, mais sur

The reigning authority on intellectual property in the Internet age, Lawrence Lessig spotlights the newest and possibly the most harmful culture a war waged against those who create and consume art. Americas copyright laws have ceased to perform their original, beneficial role: protecting artists creations while allowing them to build on previous creative works. In fact, our system now criminalizes those very actions. Remix is an urgent, eloquent plea to end a war that harms every intrepid, creative user of new technologies. It also offers an inspiring vision of the postwar world where enormous opportunities await those who view art as a resource to be shared openly rather than a commodity to be hoarded.

The Internet revolution has come. Some say it has gone. In The Future of Ideas, Lawrence Lessig explains how the revolution has produced a counterrevolution of potentially devastating power and effect. Creativity once flourished because the Net protected a commons on which widest range of innovators could experiment. But now, manipulating the law for their own purposes, corporations have established themselves as virtual gatekeepers of the Net while Congress, in the pockets of media magnates, has rewritten copyright and patent laws to stifle creativity and progress.Lessig weaves the history of technology and its relevant laws to make a lucid and accessible case to protect the sanctity of intellectual freedom. He shows how the door to a future of ideas is being shut just as technology is creating extraordinary possibilities that have implications for all of us. Vital, eloquent, judicious and forthright, The Future of Ideasis a call to arms that we can ill afford to ignore.

Lawrence Lessig, the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era (The New Yorker), masterfully argues that never before in human history has the power to control creative progress been so concentrated in the hands of the powerful few, the so-called Big Media. Never before have the cultural powers- that-be been able to exert such control over what we can and cant do with the culture around us. Our society defends free markets and free speech; why then does it permit such top-down control? To lose our long tradition of free culture, Lawrence Lessig shows us, is to lose our freedom to create, our freedom to build, and, ultimately, our freedom to imagine.