"Stanford Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig's concerns are specific and timely: He believes that the Internet and the innovation wave it spawned face problems far more serious than a stock market dip. He's right, of course...."
Idea Killers, Business Week, Timothy J. Mullaney, December 10, 2001
"Lessig summarizes with scholarly detail the war waged by the interests of corporate control on behalf of corporate profits against the physical, logical and content layers of the Internet."
The Cook Report, January 2002
"Alas, Lessig more pointedly says, the architecture of cyberspace is being challenged, legally and technically, so that the Net is in danger of being perilously stifled by a trend toward control. As media giants seek further to integrate their companies vertically, the freedoms of the Net can be further eroded, he claims."
Internet Controls Needed But Risk of Stifling Freedoms Exists, Columbus Dispatch, December 3, 2001
"An incredible resource for anyone who wishes to grapple with the difficult intersection between private property and the public use of creativity on the Internet....Lessig's book provides a wake-up call. It reminds us that the expansion of property rights into the market for intellectual property on the Internet brings with it significant, negative side effects for society at large. The question of what the future of the Internet will look like, Lessig suggests, is really a question about the nature of freedom itself. And this is precisely why this book is so important-–because it uses the example of the Internet to teach us something deeper, and more troubling, about ourselves."
"[A]n extremely important book that should be widely read in Washington, particularly given the importance of the government's role in regulating telecom industries and how little most politicians understand technology. "
"Gofer Broke," Nicholas Thompson, Washington Monthly, November 2001
"Lessig's thesis (called "the 'Silent Spring' of ideas" by one admirer) is timely, tough-minded and cogently argued. It should be of great interest both to those in the tech elite and the rest of us affected by their decisions."
Season's Readings: Choice books, John Marshall, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, November 19, 2001
"Lessig is right....As we move into what I suspect will be a less-protectionist cycle of intellectual property policy, Lessig's book will serve as an excellent guide."
Opening Arguments. 'The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World', Glenn Harlan Reynolds, Washington Post, November 18, 2001
"Lessig offers a timely polemic against the sterilization of cyberspace. Part manifesto, part jeremiad, but all essential reading for anyone concerned with the future of creative freedom in cyberspace."
Kirkus Reviews
"[A] highly readable and deeply engaging sequel to his Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace....It is as good a history of the development of Internet architecture as one is likely to find in a book without pictures. It is also an extraordinarily skillful interweaving of technical characterization and legal argument. And it is a story well told, with a fair balance of clever aside and clear purpose. "
"Internet Liberation Theology," Marc Rotenberg, Salon.com, November 7, 2001
"...Valuable advice on the care and feeding of innovation, and a wise caution against taking future scientific leaps for granted."
Profit© vs. innovation®: A Web legal scholar warns of the social costs of patents and monopolies, Christian Science Monitor, Douglas McGray, November 1, 2001
