KF2979.L47 2004
Lessig, Lawrence. Free culture : how big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity. New York: Penguin Press, 2004.
Lawrence Lessig, "the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era" (The New Yorker), is often called our leading cultural environmentalist. His focus is the ecosystem of creativity, the environment created around it by technology and law. To read Free Culture is to understand that the health of that ecosystem is in grave peril. While new technologies always lead to new laws, Lessig shows that never before have the big cultural monopolists drummed up such unease about these advances, especially the Internet, to shrink the public domain while using the same advances to control what we can and can’t do with the culture all around us. What’s at stake is our freedom -- freedom to create, freedom to build, and, ultimately, freedom to imagine.
KF2994 .G654 2003
Goldstein, Paul. Copyright's highway : from Gutenberg to the celestial jukebox. Rev. ed. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Law and Politics/Stanford University Press, 2003.
History of copyright and analysis of implications of future technological developments.
Z649.F35 C74 1993
Crews, Kenneth D. Copyright, fair use, and the challenge for universities : promoting the progress of higher education. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Suggests that academic institutions may have given away too many of their rights under the fair use doctrine.