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Book Review: Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig
"If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, you might have caught on that I recently got into the book Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity by Lawrence Lessig, one of many that I’ve been meaning to check off my least of to-reads. Let me spoil the review by telling you not to bother reading the review, just go get the book and read it. It’s just that good. If you have any interest at all in copyrights, law, and the freedom to develop creative content, then you’re going to get a ton out of this book. It should be required reading for every member of Congress...."
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