Code
Subtitle: and other laws of cyberspace
By: Lawrence Lessig
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Information superhighway -- Law and legislation; Computers -- Law and legislation; Electronic commerce -- Law and legislation; Freedom of information; Privacy, Right of
Other titles: Code
First sentence: A decade ago, in the Spring of 1989, Communism in Europe died—collapsed, as a tent would fall if its main post were removed.
Description: Examines the relation between cyberspace and government, particularly the government's ability to regulate. Contrary to popular belief, cyberspace can be regulated through architecture and its representation as code.  Government and commerce are working to regulate cyberspace, although each in a different way and for different reasons.  In the opposite direction, cyberspace challenges the basic assumptions underlying American governance.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-288) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: ix; label: 1
title: Regulability; label: 1
title: Code is Law
pagenum: 3; label: 2
title: Four Puzzles from Cyberspace
pagenum: 9; label: 3
title: Is-Ism
pagenum: 24; label: 4
title: Architectures of Control
pagenum: 30; label: 5
title: Regulating Code
pagenum: 43; label: 2
title: Code and Other Regulaors; label: 6
title: Cyberspaces
pagenum: 63; label: 7
title: What Things Regulate
pagenum: 85; label: 8
title: The Limits of Open Code
pagenum: 100; label: 3
title: Applications; label: 9
title: Translation
pagenum: 111; label: 10
title: Intellectual Property
pagenum: 122; label: 11
title: Privacy
pagenum: 142; label: 12
title: Free Speech
pagenum: 164; label: 13
title: Interlude
pagenum: 186; label: 14
title: Sovereignty
pagenum: 188; label: 4
title: Responses; label: 15
title: The Problems We Face
pagenum: 213; label: 16
title: Responses
pagenum: 222; label: 17
title: What Declan Doesn't Get
pagenum: 231; title: Appendix
pagenum: 235; title: Notes
pagenum: 241; title: Index
pagenum: 289