Code Version 2.0 – Lawrence Lessig

Dense, interesting and informative. The Internet and cyberspace allow ever larger portions of our lives to be controlled by computer code. Lessig asks how law should respond to the new control and lack of controls made possible by code. If computer searches can be made totally burdenless, does the Fourth Amendment still prevent them? How should we regulate privacy? How should we regulate intellectual property? Does it matter that private companies (rather than the government) are controlling many of these areas? And what are our options as citizens for affecting the way the legal situation develops? This last topic is especially interesting as it clearly informs Lessig’s decision to turn his attention from questions of electronic law to questions of systematic corruption in the political system.

Make sure to get Version 2.0 of this book, released in 2006, rather than the original entitled Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace and published 1999.

Code Version 2.0
Lawrence Lessig
2006
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