The Future of Ideas

The Future of Ideas (2001) is a publication by Lawrence Lessig, a professor of law at Stanford Law School, who is well known as a critic of the extension of the copyright protection term.

In the book, he showed there are three layers of ideas: code layer, and content layer and physical layer.

Code layer is one that is controled by computer programms. The censorship by sorting out geographical IP address in China is an instance.

Content layer is a notroiously known by Napster, a file-sharing service. He criticized the reaction of music companies and Hollywood.

Physical layer is one that actually conveys information from one point to another point, and can be either wired wireless. He dicusses particularly about the regulation of spectrum in the USA.

External Links

• Author Lawrence Lessig 's homepage: http://www.lessig.org/
• Homepage: http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/future/