5/24/2023 0 Comments Free culture by lawrence lessig![]() ![]() That lack of freedom to share, remix, and redistribute cultural content places legal limits on creative innovation, Lessig argues. But the cultural products we’ve avoided paying for in cash have cost us in other ways.įree social media platforms track our cultural interests, advertisements litter our screens, and copyright law prevents us from sharing much of the cultural content we consume on a daily basis. That is, fewer people pay subscription fees for news and magazine articles fewer people rely on cable packages to watch television and fewer people pay for music that they can stream for free. ![]() The full integration of the Internet into daily life has meant that we access much of our cultural content without cost. ![]() In the decade following, the trend continued to the point of near saturation. Over the course of ten years, Internet use grew from 5% in 1994 to nearly two-thirds of all Americans by the end of 2004. In 2004 when Lawrence Lessig first published his book Free Culture, the Internet was in full bloom. ![]()
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