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Loading... Free Culture: The Nature and Future of CreativityNumbers 57 and 58 are Free Culture and Remix by Lawrence Lessig, two great books about copyright issues in the digital world. I might review them when I get some more time/if people are interested, but for now, they're both great and entertaining if you want to know about the cultural ... Here's a link to Stanford Law School's Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture - oh, look, a Creative Commons license - the contra-Helprin argument in which Lessig avers that copyright law actually devalues the culture and chokes creativity:
http://www.free-culture.cc/
... Douglass Thom
# 24 Total Immersion by Terry Laughlin
# 25 Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky
# 26 Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig
# 27 What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
# 28 Skunk Works by Ben R. Rich
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Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws also by Kate Bornstein
Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity by Lawrence Lessig
Right now I'm reading James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice Sheldon by Julie Phillips ... ... in the Caribbean, on hot sand under a palm tree. Blue water in the lagoon and a rum-induced haze. Must. Find. Beach.
Free Culture and The Future of Ideas are both amazing books, if you haven't read them. I went to Larry Lessig's last CC lecture ever a couple months ago, and the man is ... 9. Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig
I finished this up yesterday and starting The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer.
I read Free Culture as a pdf file on my computer. This seemed appropriate given the subject matter, but I don't recommend reading anything that way that is ... ... in cooking and eating food.
I'm not totally sure what I'm planning to read next. I was sort of thinking about reading Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig, but I would be reading of my laptop screen as a pdf file, so I might not have ... ... paperback copy I have is heavy enough to be used to bludgeon a statesman to death.
Okay, seriously: how about Lessig's Free Culture? If it eventually inspires even small changes to legal/social/political convention, those could have an impact on what other books are written and how they're ... ... really accepted, not just given lip service to in speeches:
1. Freedom benefits everyone. Free markets, free trade, free culture, freedom from an intrusive state, freedom from poverty, ignorance and fear.
2. Economic development must be sustainable. An end to short-termism and ... ... of my books are shared with GSLISers. My most shared book is The Time Traveler's Wife. My least shared is a 502 book - Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig.
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