Considered as a top cultural environmentalist, Lawrence Lessig is The New Yorker’s “most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era.” Lessig, a professor from Stanford Law School and the institutor of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, mainly wrote the book issuing on the ecosystem of creativity and the setting developed around it through law and technology.

In reading Free Culture, the audience can recognize that the condition of such ecosystem is at a risk. Since improved technologies constantly result to new policies, Lawrence Lessig illustrates that the cultural monopolist giants have never before stirred up an apprehension about these enhancements such as this, particularly the World Wide Web. Monopolists have tried to reduce the public domain and, at the same time, utilize the same innovations to manipulate what people are and are not capable of doing with their surrounding culture. What is also at risk and being threatened here is the people’s freedom: the freedom to build, the freedom to create and the freedom to imagine.

Lessig’s Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity is a strongly argued and significant review on the issues of the decrease of the public domain, as well as the desolation that the event causes to the culture. Lessig, who is a prominent associate of an organization composed of grassroots advocates (the “copyleft”) and theorists, has been protesting in opposition to the radical rise of copyright protections. He was a chief lawyer righteously challenged the Supreme Court while arguing on the copyright extension act.

Thus, Free Culture by Lessig, who has also written Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace and The Future of Ideas, poses as a final appeal to the court of public opinion as well as a wake up call.