![]() ![]() ![]() The book’s story line is often difficult to follow because the ideas build up in layers, and each chapter explores multiple layers. After reading his book, one is tempted to conclude that Lessig moved across the country to help the losing side. That move recapitulates one of Lessig’s main claims: that the code of cyberspace, long dominated by West Coast software developers, is coming under the control of East Coast law developers. He wrote the book while on the faculty of the Harvard Law School and thereafter moved to Stanford Law School. It is a must-read for those who believe that the information revolution really is a revolution. ![]() Linked to these themes is a broad array of issues, including the architecture of social control, the peculiarities of cyberspace, the problems of intellectual property, the assault on personal privacy, the limits of free speech, and the challenge to sovereignty. Lawrence Lessig’s book Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace begins and ends with two key themes: that our world is increasingly governed by written code in the form of software and law and that the code we are creating is decreasingly in the service of democratic objectives. ![]()
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