The future of ideas

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The Future of Ideas - The Fate of the Commons in a Networked World is a book published in 2001 by law professor Lawrence Lessig of Stanford University in California . Lessig is a well-known critic of the prolongation of copyright protection in the United States . The original English title is The Future of Ideas: the fate of the commons in a connected world .

While copyright law helps artists to be rewarded for their work, Lessig warns that its design is too strict and that it is granted for too long. He fears that this will prevent innovation , as the future is always based on the works of the past. Lessig also discusses recent efforts by interest groups in the rights industry who advocate even longer and tighter protection of intellectual property on three levels: the code level, the content level and the representational level.

The code level is controlled by computer programs. One example is the Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China ( Internet censorship in mainland China ), which sorts out IP addresses according to their geographical origin. The content level is illustrated using the example of the Napster music exchange , a file exchange market . Lessig criticizes the reaction of the music societies and Hollywood . The objective level is the one that actually forwards information from one point to another, and it can be wired as well as radio-based. He particularly addresses the regulation of radio frequencies .

In the end, he emphasizes the importance of the process of ensuring that existing works are transferred to the public domain in a reasonable time , as the founding fathers intended.

The Future of Ideas is a continuation of his previous book Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace , which is about how computer programs can limit the freedom of ideas in cyberspace (virtual space).

Like Lessig's earlier works, the book has been under a free license since 2008 . The Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial (CC-BY-NC) license was chosen .

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  1. ↑ Lawrence Lessig: The Future of Ideas is now Free ( English ) 15 January 2008. Accessed September 13, 2011th