Lawrence Lessig, "the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era" (The New Yorker),
masterfully argues that never before in human history has the power to control creative progress been so concentrated
in the hands of the powerful few, the so-called Big Media. Never before have the cultural powers- that-be been
able to exert such control over what we can and can't do with the culture around us. Our society defends free markets
and free speech; why then does it permit such top-down control? To lose our long tradition of free culture, Lawrence
Lessig shows us, is to lose our freedom to create, our freedom to build, and, ultimately, our freedom to imagine.