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Future of Ideas

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Mindjack

"[R]emarkably readable....Lessig weaves together fields not known for their ready accessibility: law, policy, networked computing, history of technology...…

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Information Technology and Libraries

"This is a first-rate and important book to read....The Web won’t go away, and neither will P2P file sharing, nor the next big thing that comes down the In…

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New Architect

"...[A]lthough Lessig's ideas are controversial, the central conclusion of The Future of Ideas is inarguable...." Fate of the Commons, Lincoln St…

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The fate of the common idea

"[A]n important and well-argued book that will give even staunch cyber-utopians pause for thought." The fate of the common idea, Dave Cosgrave, ITBus…

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The "Dinosaurs" Are Taking Over

Lawrence Lessig: The "Dinosaurs" Are Taking Over, Special Report -- The Future of e-Business, BusinessWeek Online, May 13, 2002…

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The Enemies Of Innovation

"[Lessig pulls] off a difficult trick -- he's written a book largely about the arcana of Internet protocols and intellectual property laws, and he'…

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Washington Times

"The [Future of Ideas] brims with brilliant insights and subtleties....[it] should be must reading for serious property rights thinkers about the Internet…

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American Prospect

"[A] brilliant...exposition....[T]hanks to Code and The Future of Ideas...and a few other farsighted works, we need not be herded altogether passively into…

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New Yorker

"[The] most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era....[The Future of Ideas] serves as a bleak summa of his thoughts on intellectual…

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LA Times

"[A] dazzlingly inventive work about familiar things. It deserves to change the way we think about the electronic frontier." The Final Frontier, Alex…

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New Scientist

"[A] book that is far darker and more pessimistic than Code...they ask, [who] will spend their lives making music for the rest of us if there's no way…

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Chicago Tribune

"[Lessig is] a respected scholar with a firm grasp of both law and technology." Firms' control is threat to innovation: Author, Anick Jesdanun, C…