AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to millions of articles
from top publications available through your library. How Big
Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and
Control Creativity By Lawrence Lessig. New York: Penguin, 2004.
240p. $24.95 (ISBN 1-594-20006-8). This is the third book by
Stanford law professor Larry Lessig, and the third in which he
furthers his basic theme: that the ancient regime of
intellectual property owners is locked in a battle with the
capabilities of new technology. Lessig used his first book, Code
and Other Laws of Cyberspace (Basic Books, 1999), to explain
that the notion of cyberspace as free, open, and anarchic is
simply a myth, and a dangerous one at that: the very
architecture of our computers and how they communicate determine
what one can and cannot do within that environment. If you can
get control of that architecture, say by mandating filters on
content, you can get substantial control over the culture of
that communication space. In his second book, The