Lessig maintains that before the internet these constraints remained in balance with each other in regulating copying of creative works.

In his book, Lessig describes modern culture as Read Only.

* Permission culture – neologism by Lawrence Lessig.

Drawing on Lawrence Lessig ’ s Free Culture ( published in 2002 ), the free culture movement promoted the distribution of cultural works under similar terms to those free software is distributed under.

Creative Commons attempts to counter what Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons, considers to be a dominant and increasingly restrictive permission culture.

Lessig describes this as " a culture in which creators get to create only with the permission of the powerful, or of creators from the past ".

In his book Code: Version 2. 0 and a subsequent talk in Google's AtGoogleTalks Author's Series, Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig specifically mentions AMVs as an example when dealing with the legality and creative nature of digital remix culture.

Lessig argues that this substantially limits the growth of creative arts and culture, in violation of the US Constitution ; the Supreme Court ruled that Congress has the constitutional authority to properly balance competing interests on cases like this.

Lessig argues that we are fast becoming a permissions culture, though he sees the internet as a modern-day Armstrong: it challenges the traditional innovator and seeks to break free of any permissions or strict regulations.

Lessig writes at the end of the Preface, “… the free culture that I defend in this book is a balance between anarchy and control.

According to Lessig, ours has been but is decreasingly a free culture.

Importantly, Lessig points out, throughout human history, " every society has left a certain bit of its culture free for the taking.

Lessig goes on to suggest that the advent of the Internet has changed our culture, and along with it the expectation and acceptance of creative priacy.

Lessig claims this kind of environment is not democratic and at no point in our history have we had fewer " legal right to control more of the development of our culture than now.

Lessig claims to defend a free culture that is balanced between control-a culture that has property, rules, and contracts pertaining to property that are enforced by the state-and anarchy-a culture that can grow and thrive when others are allowed to use and build upon the property of others.

Lessig provides two examples that portray the difference between a free culture and a permissions culture-two themes that will develop throughout the book.

Lessig concludes with a thought that " ours was a free culture is becoming much less so.

Lessig emphasizes the role of copyright law, pointing out that as it stands, copyright law impacts all kinds of piracy, and hence is a part of the piracy war that challenges free culture.

Lessig believes that if he had instead argued that this extension caused net harm to the US economy and culture, as numerous people had advised, he could have won.

In the afterword, Lessig proposes practical solutions to the dispute over intellectual property rights, in hope that common sense and a proclivity toward free culture be revived.

David Post argues that Lessig shows that " free culture " has always been a part of our intellectual heritage and illuminates the tension between the already created and not yet created.

Permission culture is a term often employed by Lawrence Lessig and other copyright activists to describe a society in which copyright restrictions are pervasive and enforced to the extent that any and all uses of copyrighted works need to be explicitly leased.

Lawrence Lessig describes permission culture in contrast with free culture.

Lawrence " Larry " Lessig ( born June 3, 1961 ) is an American academic and political activist.

Lessig is a founding board member of Creative Commons and Rootstrikers, and also is on the board of MapLight.

Lessig is currently considered politically liberal.

Lessig believes that the key to mashups and remix is " education – not

The PLoS journals are what it describes as " open access content "; all content is published under the Creative Commons " attribution " license ( Lawrence Lessig, of Creative Commons, is also a member of the Advisory Board ).

The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World ( 2001 ) is a book by Lawrence Lessig, at the time of writing a professor of law at Stanford Law School, who is well known as a critic of the extension of the copyright term in US.

While copyright helps artists get rewarded for their work, Lessig warns that a copyright regime that is too strict and grants copyright for too long a period of time ( e. g. the current US legal climate ) can destroy innovation, as the future always builds on the past.

A notable advocate for Open Spectrum is Lawrence Lessig.

Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity ( published in paperback as Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity ) is a 2004 book by law professor Lawrence Lessig that was released on the Internet under the Creative Commons Attribution / Non-commercial license ( by-nc 1. 0 ) on March 25, 2004.

This book is an outgrowth of the U. S. Supreme Court decision in Eldred v. Ashcroft, which Lessig lost.

Free Culture < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s message is different, Lessig writes, because it is " about the consequence of the Internet to a part of our tradition that is much more fundamental, and, as hard as this is for a geek-wanna-be to admit, much more important.

Lessig concludes his book by suggesting that as society evolves into an information society there is a choice to be made to decide if that society is to be free or feudal in nature.

Lessig ’ s worry is that intellectual property rights will not be protecting the right sort of property, but will instead come to protect private interests in a controlling way.

As Lessig sees it, " the law's role is less and less to support creativity, and more and more to protect certain industries against competition.

* Free Culture ( book ) by Lawrence Lessig

In 1998 faculty member Lawrence Lessig, now at Stanford Law School, was asked by online publisher Eldritch Press to mount a legal challenge to US copyright law.

Harvard law professor and Creative Commons board member Lawrence Lessig had called for a constitutional convention in a September 24 – 25, 2011 conference co-chaired by the Tea Party Patriots ' national coordinator, in Lessig's October 5 book, Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress – and a Plan to Stop It, and at the Occupy protest in Washington, DC.

Lead counsel for the plaintiff was Lawrence Lessig ; the government's case was argued by Solicitor General Theodore Olson.

Lessig expressed surprise that no decision was authored by Chief Justice Rehnquist or by any of the other four justices who supported the Lopez or Morrison decisions.

The organization was founded in 2001 by Lawrence Lessig, Hal Abelson, and Eric Eldred with support of the Center for the Public Domain.

While Lessig remains skeptical of government intervention, he favors regulation by calling himself " a constitutionalist ".

Lessig has called for state governments to call for a national constitutional convention, and that the convention be populated by a " random proportional selection of citizens " which he suggested would work effectively.

Lessig also discusses recent movements by corporate interests to promote longer and tighter protection of intellectual property in three layers: the code layer, the content layer, and the physical layer.

Category: Books by Lawrence Lessig

He translated some important works in computer technology such as " The Cathedral and the Bazaar " by Eric S. Raymond, " Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace " by Lawrence Lessig into Japanese.

1913 photo of Paterson silk strike of 1913 | Paterson silk strike leaders Patrick Quinlan ( activist ) | Patrick Quinlan, Tresca, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Adolph Lessig, and Bill HaywoodTresca joined the revolutionary syndicalist Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ) in 1912, when he was invited by the union to Lawrence, Massachusetts to help mobilize the Italian workers during a campaign to free strike leaders Joseph Ettor and Arturo Giovannitti, jailed on false murder charges.

* The future of ideas: the fate of the commons in a connected world ( 2001 ) by Lawrence Lessig

Proponents such as Lessig have suggested that copyright holders may be motivated to oppose the PDEA by a competitive threat: a huge wave of abandoned works would spill into the public domain which could form the basis of new derived works that would compete commercially with established copyrighted works.

Professor Lessig analyzes the tension that exists between the concepts of piracy and property in the intellectual property realm in the context of what he calls the present " depressingly compromised process of making law " that has been captured in most nations by multinational corporations that are interested in the accumulation of capital and not the free exchange of ideas.

According to Lessig, the public domain becomes orphaned by these changes to copyright law.

Lessig insists that the future of our society is being threatened by recent changes in US law and administration, including decisions by the US Federal Communications Commission that allow increased Concentration of media ownership.