Just discovered that Lawrence Lessig's book, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, is available for free download here. The book was published by Penguin and I'm impressed they went for the 'free download' thing - I'm sure they didn't have a choice if they wanted to sign him to a publishing deal (Penguin is a sister company to Peachpit).
I haven't started reading it, but I've read his other stuff via Wired. Copyright law is an area I am definitely interested in and he is at the forefront of the movement to transform copyright to meet the demands of the digital age. I'm looking forward to reading this book!
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Copyright law is also an interest of mine, so be sure to post on the potential ASU has in this area.
Will do, for sure!
Gary Marchant, who heads the school's Center for Law, Science and Technology spoke at the orientation and he was really interesting. Copyright, IP and trademark law fall under the umbrella of this department/center and I'm curious to see how they fit and how much focus is given to them. Marchant is a geneticist so he comes to it with a focus on the biological sciences (and there's a lot going on there which is interesting - he was most excited about nanotechnology) - but I hope to see some good, interesting stuff about copyright too. I'll keep you posted!
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