Where's the book?

Start at the Table of Contents

What's going on here?

Lawrence Lessig first published Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace in 1999. After five years in print and five years of changes in law, technology, and the context in which they reside, Code needed an update. To begin that update, in 2005, Jotspot ported Code v1 to a wiki, and for the balance of the year, people edited Code v1 by adding either ideas, or questions, or new material. In January, 2006, Lessig took the product of that wiki-edit, and added his own edits to produce Code v.2.

Code v.2 has now been ported to this SocialText wiki. Readers/writers are invited to make corrections, or add other material that might be relevant to the argument in the book. They are also invited to add links to pages either on this Wiki or elsewhere, where criticisms of the argument are made. To keep the coherency of the wiki and the published book, radical changes will be reverted. But everyone is encouraged to extend or criticize the argument in ways that help the ultimate aim of understanding.

The best place for additional material to be added (or irrelevant material to be removed) is in the notes. But that points to the first obvious edit this wiki needs. Because of the limits of conversion routines, those links could not be made automatically. So if you just want to help out, adding those links to the text would be a great first step.

Finally, the messy legal stuff. All contributions to Codev2 are governed by the Code v2 Terms of Service. These basically assure that contributions are contributions.

To learn about sharing your own creative work for others to build upon, visit creativecommons.org.

Get started in four easy steps:

1. You can read this wiki without logging in.
2. If you'd like an introductory tour of the Socialtext Workspace, start here.
3. Before contributing, see our getting started guide and list of things to think about while writing.
4. Start contributing to Code v.3!