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* Lessig, Lawrence. Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law To Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity.
Penguin. Apr. 2004. c.345p. index. ISBN 1-59420-006-8. $24.95. LAW
Lessig (Stanford Law Sch.; The Future of Ideas) has written an important book about the intrigues and interactions of copyright, intellectual property, and technology. Named a special master in the Microsoft antitrust case to advise the court on technological matters, the author is certainly a strong believer in the protection of copyrighted work, but he also feels that the situation has become so extreme in this country that it is stifling innovation, strangling …