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Author: Lawrence Lessig
Publisher: New York : Basic Books, ©2006.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : [2nd ed.]View all editions and formats
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There's a belief that cyberspace cannot be regulated - that is, its very essence is immune from the government's control. This book presents an argument that this belief is wrong. It shows that the  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Lawrence Lessig
ISBN: 0465039146 9780465039142
OCLC Number: 133467669
Notes: Previous edition: New York : Basic Books, 1999, under title: Code and other laws of cyberspace.
Description: xvii, 410 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Preface --
Code is law --
Four puzzles from cyberspace --
Part I: "Regulability" --
Is-ism: is the way it is the way it must be? --
Architectures of control --
Regulating control --
Part II: Regulation by code --
Cyberspaces --
What things regulate --
The limits in open code --
Part III: Latent ambiguities --
Translation --
Intellectual property --
Privacy --
Free speech --
Interlude --
Part IV: Competing sovereigns --
Sovereignty --
Competition among sovereigns --
The problems we face --
Responses --
What Declan doesn't get.
Other Titles: Code
Responsibility: Lawrence Lessig.

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"Lawrence Lessig is a James Madison of our time, crafting the lineaments of a well-tempered cyberspace. This book is a primer of 'running code' for digital civilization. Like Madison, Lessig is a Read more...

 
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