Remix : making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy / Lawrence Lessig.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lessig, Lawrence
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Books, 2009.
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Physical Description:xxii, 327 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Cultures
  • 1: Cultures of our past
  • RW culture versus RO culture
  • Limits in regulation
  • 2: Cultures of our future
  • 3: RO, extended
  • Nature remade
  • Re-making nature
  • Recoding us
  • 4: RW, revived
  • Writing beyond words
  • Remixed: text
  • Remixed: media
  • Significance of remix
  • Old in the new
  • 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
  • Part 2: Economies
  • 6: Two economies: commercial and sharing
  • Commercial economies
  • Three successes from the Internet's commercial economy
  • Three keys to these three successes
  • Little brother
  • Character of commercial success
  • Sharing economies
  • Internet sharing economies
  • Paradigm case: Wikipedia
  • Beyond Wikipedia
  • What sharing economies share
  • 7: Hybrid economies
  • Paradigm case: free software
  • Beyond free software
  • 8: Economy lessons
  • Parallel economies are possible
  • Tools help signal which economy a creator creates for
  • Crossover are growing
  • Strong incentives will increasingly drive commercial entities 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
  • Hybrid can help us decriminalize youth
  • Part 3: Enabling The Future
  • 9: Reforming law
  • 1: Deregulating amateur creativity
  • 2: Clear title
  • 3: Simplify
  • 4: Decriminalizing the copy
  • 5: Decriminalizing file sharing
  • 10: Reforming us
  • Chilling the control freaks
  • Showing sharing
  • Rediscovering the limits of regulation
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index.