WHO OWNS CULTURE?
LIVE from the NYPL and Wired magazine present: Jeff Tweedy + Lawrence Lessig in conversation with Steven Johnson

Thursday, April 7, 2005
7:00 PM

Series Title:  LIVE from the NYPL

Organizer:  Public Programs

Celeste Bartos Forum, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 5th Avenue and 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788 (directions)

Press Release

Jeff Tweedy and Lawrence Lessig

Wilco guitarist and frontman Jeff Tweedy and Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig explore the artistic, commercial and legal issues that surround the Internet-enabled freeing of culture. Lessig is the author of Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. Steven Johnson, Wired contributing editor and author of the forthcoming Everything Bad Is Good For You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter, will moderate the discussion.

Cost:  Tickets are $10 for the general public and $7 for Friends of the Library, Young Lions, and Conservators.

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