Stanford CIS
Stanford Center for Internet and Society

Stanford Center for Internet and Society

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LA Times

"Lessig is a clear writer who is able to convey complicated concepts in simple prose. The book, however, is rich with examples and subtleties about everyth…

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Slashdot.org

"The ideas in it should not be unfamiliar -- Lessig is hardly the only one espousing this point of view today, though he is one of the most articulate. The…

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Business Week

"Stanford Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig's concerns are specific and timely: He believes that the Internet and the innovation wave it spawned fac…

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Cook Report

"Lessig summarizes with scholarly detail the war waged by the interests of corporate control on behalf of corporate profits against the physical, logical a…

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Columbus Dispatch

"Alas, Lessig more pointedly says, the architecture of cyberspace is being challenged, legally and technically, so that the Net is in danger of being peril…

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FindLaw's Writ

"An incredible resource for anyone who wishes to grapple with the difficult intersection between private property and the public use of creativity on the I…

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Washington Monthly

"[A]n extremely important book that should be widely read in Washington, particularly given the importance of the government's role in regulating telec…

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"Lessig's thesis (called "the 'Silent Spring' of ideas" by one admirer) is timely, tough-minded and cogently argued. It should be of…

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Washington Post

"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 e…

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Kirkus Reviews

"Lessig offers a timely polemic against the sterilization of cyberspace. Part manifesto, part jeremiad, but all essential reading for anyone concerned with…

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Salon.com

"[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 architec…

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Christian Science Monitor

"...Valuable advice on the care and feeding of innovation, and a wise caution against taking future scientific leaps for granted." Profit© vs. innova…