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LESSIG home writing books articles essays medium blog v.2 blog v.1 wiki media video audio pics about Bio CV Disclosure gigs contact facebook twitter instagram youtube flickr books articles essays medium blog v.2 blog v.1 wiki Remix PURCHASE FROM: Amazon Barnes & Noble Penguin Group About the Book For more than a decade, we’ve been waging a war on our kids in the name of the 20th Century’s model of “copyright law.” In this, the last of his books about copyright, Lawrence Lessig maps both a way back to the 19 th century and to the promise of the 21 st . Our past teaches us about the value in “remix.” We need to relearn the lesson. The present teaches us about the potential in a new “hybrid economy” — one where commercial entities leverage value from sharing economies. That future will benefit both commerce and community. If the lawyers could get out of the way, it could be a future we could celebrate. Table of Contents Preface Introduction Part I: Cultures Chapter 1: The Cultures of our Past RW v. RO Culture Limits in Regulation Chapter 2: Cultures of our Future Chapter 3: RO, Extended Nature remade Re-remaking Nature Recoding Us Chapter 4: RW, Revived Writing beyond words Remixed: Text Remixed: Media The Significance of Remix The Old in the New Chapter 5: Cultures Compared Differences in Value — and “values” Differences in Value (as in $) Differences in Value (as in “Is it any good?”) Differences in Law (as in “Is it Allowed?”) Lessons about cultures RO culture is important and valuable RO culture will flourish in the digital age RW culture is also important and valuable Whether RW culture flourishes depends at least in part upon the law The law’s current attitude is both destructive and self-defeating — to values far more important than the profits the culture industries Part III: Economies Chapter 6: Two Economies: Commercial and Sharing Commercial Economies Three Successes from the Internet’s Commercial Economy Netflix Amazon Google Three keys to these three Internet successes Long Tails Little Brother Lego-ized Innovation The Character of Commercial Success Sharing Economies Internet sharing economies The Paradigm Case: Wikipedia Beyond Wikipedia What Sharing Economies Share Chapter 7: Hybrid Economies The Paradigm Case: Free Software Beyond Free Software Type 1: Community Spaces Dogster Craigslist: “Like, Peace, Man” Flickr YouTube Type 2: Collaboration Spaces Declan Slashdot Last.fm Microsoft Yahoo Answers Wikia Hybrid Hollywood Type 3: Communities Second Life Chapter 8: Economy Lessons Parallel economies are possible Tools help signal which economy a creator creates for Crossovers are growing Strong incentives will increasingly drive commercial entities to hybrids Strong Incentives will push “sharing economies” to hybrids Perceptions of fairness will in part mediate the hybrid relationship between sharing and commercial economies Sharecropping is not likely to become a term of praise Part IV Enabling the Future Chapter 9: Reforming Law Deregulating Amateur Creativity Clear Title Simplify Decriminalizing the Copy Decriminalizing File-sharing Chapter 10: Reforming Us Chilling the Control Freaks Showing Sharing Rediscovering the Limits of Regulation Conclusion Acknowledgments Endnotes Links & Resources Chapter 1 - Cultures of Our Past Player piano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - cached Player piano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - cached JSTOR: Popular Music, Vol. 3 (1983 ), pp. 53-75 - cached Confronting the Mass Market: Thomas Edison and the Entertainment Phonograph (pdf) - cached JSTOR: Popular Music, Vol. 3 (1983 ), pp. 53-75 - cached JSTOR: Popular Music, Vol. 3 (1983 ), pp. 53-75 - cached JSTOR: Popular Music, Vol. 3 (1983 ), pp. 53-75 - cached Industry Statistics Sampler: NAICS 5111 - cached Industry Statistics Sampler: NAICS 515120 - cached Industry Statistics Sampler: NAICS 512 - cached Motion Picture Association of America - cached United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit: ZOLTEK CORPORATION v UNITED STATES (pdf) - cached Chapter 3 - RO, Extended RIAA Watch - cached BetaNews | RIAA Sues 261, Including 12-Year-Old Girl - cached BetaNews | RIAA Sues Deceased Grandmother - cached Sixth Wave of RIAA Pre-Litigation Letters Sent to Colleges - cached Federal Judicial Caseload Statistics - cached Copyright and Home Copying: Technology Challenges the Law (pdf) - cached The Recording Industry 2006 Piracy Report - cached Artists” earnings and copyright - cached Sony BMG to sell DRM-free music downloads through stores | InfoWorld | News | 2008-01-07 | By Peter Sayer, IDG News Service - cached Chapter 4 - RW, Revived BBC NEWS | Technology | Berners-Lee on the read/write web - cached Technorati two years later - cached Sifry's Alerts: Technorati - cached Sifry's Alerts: Over 100,000 Blogs served - cached Sifry's Alerts: One Million Weblogs Tracked - cached Sifry's Alerts: State of the Blogosphere, October 2004 - cached About | Technorati Media - cached Sifry's Alerts: The State of the Live Web, April 2007 - cached Technorati Weblog: State of the Blogosphere, October, 2006 - cached Folksonomy :: Off the Top :: vanderwal.net - cached Technorati Help: Blogging 101 - cached Sifry's Alerts: The State of the Live Web, April 2007 - cached Some Examples -- Global Issues - cached Fake TV News Widespread and Undisclosed - April 2006 (pdf) - cached Fanfic Symposium: Winston Was Right - cached Misperceptions, the Media and the Iraq War (pdf) - cached Chapter 5 - Cultures Compared Content is Not King - cached Keen's "The Cult of the Amateur": BRILLIANT! 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