Event: Who Owns Culture?

Wilco guitarist and frontman Jeff Tweedy and Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig offer up their opinions regarding Napster, free culture, and the arts. Lessig wrote the 2004 book Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. Steven Johnson, author of Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate, will moderate the discussion.

Live from the NYPL in conjunction with Wired magazine, Jeff Tweedy, Lawrence Lessig, Steven Johnson. Thursday, April 7 at 7 p.m – Celeste Bartos Forum. Tickets on sale from Thursday, March 17 at 10 a.m at www.Smarttix.com.