Best Books on Copyright, Technology, and Digital Culture
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Culture vs. Copyright
An excellent and fun to read analysis of effects of Copyright and Patent laws on culture and technology progress.
2 points - added 13 years ago by guest - 2 comments
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Out of the Mouths of Babes--the great part of the book consists of dialogues by first graders.
Added 13 years ago by guest, 0 points
Note, that the book can be downloaded for free from its site
Added 13 years ago by iluxa, 0 points
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Digital Copyright
THE best primer on the law and recent controversies, written in a clear and pointed style.
2 points - added 14 years ago by writershire -
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Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture
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Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
One of the best explanations of how digital technology can be used to regulate.
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The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
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Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
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Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity
A great analysis of the way copyright has always been a complicated issue for 20th century media culture, even before the Internet.
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The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System
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Shamans, Software and Spleens : Law and the Construction of the Information Society
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The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
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Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright
This is still the best history of copyright book, taking us back to where many of the persistent tensions in copyright law first emerged.
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Copyrighting Culture: The Political Economy Of Intellectual Property (Critical Studies in Communication and in the Cultural Industries)
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Owning Culture: Authorship, Ownership, and Intellectual Property Law (Popular Culture and Everyday Life, Vol. 1)
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Promises to Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment
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Regulating Cyberspace: The Policies and Technologies of Control
Copyright is just one of five areas of Internet law that author, Spinello investigates, along with free speech, privacy, security, and fair competition.
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Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion: Rhetoric in the Peer-to-Peer Debates
A smart take on the way players in the copyright debates have worked very hard to colonize and deploy particular language.
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Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization (Leonardo Books)
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The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship (Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing)
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The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropriation, and the Law (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
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Contested Culture: The Image, the Voice, and the Law (Cultural Studies of the United States)
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