Our Culture

In my opinion, Lessig’s book is a very useful book to understand the concept of intellectual property through the way of historical examples. It was astonishing to learn about the reality of how Disney’s Mickey Mouse came to be, how ridiculous the US government can be, how blogs have taken the world collective ideas to the next level, and many other examples that made their way and became part of our culture, but Lessig's way of explaining his examples seamed kind of repetitive. The examples were different but the idea behind it was all the same. Lessig finds it in his book to discuss intellectual property in regards to a collective culture from all possible angles.

Close to being informative, Free Culture has expands the view of how intellectual property affects us in everyday life. It is everywhere; there is no running or escaping it. It is in our hands, in our home, our computer, our car, the foods we eat, the tools we use, the things we wear. Ergo, we cannot escape the bowels of our own culture.