This book is an advocacy volume, based on the convergence of certain technological capabilities, the content industries' capitalist motivations, and evolving legal policies within the copyright regime. Arguing that free culture is "a casualty in the war on piracy," Lessig uses the first portion of this volume to explore the concept of property against the history of configurations managing creativity. What is his theory of society and the role of creativity in this case? Does his argument go far enough? Too far? **************** Lecture Ideas of power >> where does power reside? Background in economics How the market functions and how legal institutions are established capitalist development >> FREE?? idea of culture >> can be unattached of political economy? culture as unatached of economic process copyright as horizon of critique separating culture from economics what is his definition of culture? limited? is law based on culture? balance between rights, opportunities, is balance related to common sense? Copyright >> how much productivity enhances collusion of technology and structures and law and policy what move people in contemporary society? meaning and passion in their work we live through institutions >> employers >> huge influence >> emotional health, emotional state institutions >> mozilla, fsf, osi production of cultural goods >> sharing, copying, law is out stab with social practices >> fair use :: balances of fair use >> accepted practices common sennse> constitution based -utopian strend :: deliberative democracy -myth : in order to have democracy you need access information new technologies change the circumstances >> change the oportunity spaces >> there is a struggle of old business corporations trying to take a pice, keep what they have chronology embedded >>> separate chronologies previews attempts to sharing net neutrality :: control of the actual infrastructure of the internet :: controlling traffic, distribution. >> fight agaiinst privileging control from someone to other ones. Speed what napster did was having a directory :: facilitated more >> was not really p2p. constitutional and legal framework >> *************** Maybe not. I disagree with Stuart claim that free culture is equal to free market. The the ambiguity of the term "free," and the fact that Lessig theorizes from an Anglo-American framework, can suggest that the vision of society in this book is a totalitarian one. However, I think that Lessig vision goes beyond a blatant commercial and competitive society. Even if it is true that he is in favor of capitalism, and of the free market, free speech, and free elections as well, his claim about a culture goes beyond that. A culture that does not rely in "permission" and that does not limit and destroy the creative practices of individuals is, at least for me, not the one of a totalitarian society. The historical revision of the concept of propriety help us understand what Lessig calls a "free culture tradition." The different cases that he describes illustrate the struggle between "public gain" and "private interests," and remind us of the agency of individuals in creating and changing "common sense." In his argument individuals are empowered by technology, they are creative innovators who are able to change "common sense" with their practices. Lessig's vision of society embraces this tradition by giving individuals the agency for building their culture, using and tinkering with technology, spreading content, transforming each other works, sharing and cooperating. As a matter of fact, Lessig argues for the power of "common sense" and "public gain" over mere "private interests." make easy the comparison of his to end comparing his vision with the one of a totalitarian capitalist society. tradition of free culture sharing cooperation it is capitalist He has the vision of a society th ***************** http://freeculture.org/ Students for Free Culture is an international, chapter-based student organization that promotes the public interest in intellectual property and telecommunications policy. Students for Free Culture (SFC) is a diverse, non-partisan group of students and young people who are working to get their peers involved in the free culture movement. SFC chapters exist at over 40 colleges and universities around the world. Students for Free Culture was founded by two Swarthmore students after they sued voting-machine manufacturer Diebold for abusing copyright law in 2003. SFC has collaborated with Creative Commons, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, Downhill Battle, and other free software and media reform groups. ------ free culture movement The free culture movement is a social movement that promotes the freedom to distribute and modify creative works in the form of free content by using the Internet and other forms of media. The movement objects to overly restrictive copyright laws. Many members of the movement argue that such laws hinder creativity. They call this system "permission culture". The free culture movement, with its ethos of free exchange of ideas, is of a whole with the free software movement. Richard Stallman, the founder of the GNU project, and free software activist, advocates free sharing of information. He famously stated free software means free as in “free speech,” not “free beer.” Today, the term stands for many other movements, including hacker computing, the access to knowledge movement and the copyleft movement. The term “free culture” was originally the title of a 2004 book by Lawrence Lessig, a founding father of free culture movement. ****************************** QUOTES "His fundamental goal was freedom; innovative creative code was a byproduct." (280) applying FS strategy to culture :: inspired by RMS and the copyleft strategy and the GPL GNU Creative Commons : a non profit corporation with home at Standford University "Its aim is to build a layer of reasonable copyright on top of the extremes that now reign. It does this by making it easy for people to build upon other people's work, by making it simple for creators to express the freedom for others to take and build upon their work." 282 developed a free set of licenses that people can attache to their content easy and in a simple way A Creative commons licence is constituted by " a legal license, a human-readable description, and machine-readalbe tags." digital technologies and the internet need different rules expresed in ways so that humans without lawyers can use them CC expreses the notion of "some rights reserved" free-culture liceses creativity and innovation build content based upon content set free "enable creativity to spread more easily" ************ copyrights, law, and the freedom to develop creative content, ************** goal of free culture >>> "freedom" (inspired by RMS)