Free Culture

by Lawrence Lessig

This book is about American copyright law and how it affects free culture. This of course covers mostly the internet and how its use has affected the current mode of distribution for music, books, art, movies and so on. Obviously piracy is a big issue right now. This book elucidates the particular issues on this matter not in terms of the regular talking points of the media such as 'piracy is killing creativity' or 'piracy will bankrupt the industry'. It goes into a much more deeper level than this and explains the wider implication and puts into context what this advent of digital distribution has meant, what it means now and what it will mean in the future. Overall, it is a very good and insightful book.

I actually finished this book several days ago, took me 2 months or so because it was something that I put down and stopped reading, but continued reading again after some time. I put it down not because it wasn't good, but I was reading some other things at the same time too.

In-line with the values of this book, you can download the book from this link.