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Title: Digital Copyright: Protecting Intellectual Property on the Internet by Jessica Litman ISBN: 1-57392-889-5 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: March, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Foundation for the copyright quagmire
Comment: I found this book to be an easy read over the weekend and very comprehensible, even to the layperson who does not have a legal background yet who might have interest.
The bottom line is that copyright law and the meshing of digitization is not black and white yet is gray and murky. Until case law and the creatives reach some kind of a negotiation or a consensus, it will continue to be murky.
And, in our society we may have to agree to disagree with certain elements.
One of the strongest points brought out in this book was that if people don't believe in the law, they will not uphold it and there is not a lot that the government can do. I'm certainly not condoning illegal behavior yet there is a strong point to be made.
Our law was supposed to be written as one that would flex with the times yet we've found that digitization challenges the perceptions behind the laws that were set early and into the mid 1900's.
In conclusion, there is no conclusion and the story is still being written yet this book provides an excellent historical context for why copyright is as sensitive and muddy as it is and provides a good look at the dichotomies between the copyright exclusive owners and users.
Rating: 2
Summary: disappointing
Comment: After glancing at some reviews, I had high hopes of getting a more in depth and precise understanding of digital copyright law. What I found though was a book, while effectively advancing some broad arguments, did not provide me with the kind of in depth detail that I would expect from a first rate book. At the end of the book, I cannot say that I better understand what is legal, what is not legal, and what is unclear in the modern age of digital copyright.
If you want an overview and critique of the context and process in which copyright laws have been passed, then this book might be for you. But if you're looking for a detailed explanation and investigation of current copyright laws, I think this book will leave you hanging.
Rating: 3
Summary: Interesting but not helpful
Comment: This is a well-written and interesting history of copyright as it applies to digital works. But, it does not, as the title suggests, tell you much about protecting digital property. The material is informative and has the ring of a very long law review article (or perhaps more likely, a collection of law review articles). Recommended for scholars and curious bystanders of the digital copyright wars but not recommended for those actually trying to protect work on the Net or formulate a policy for exploiting works.
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Title: The Future of Ideas : The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World by Lawrence Lessig ISBN: 0375726446 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 22 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity by Siva Vaidhyanathan ISBN: 0814788076 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace by Lawrence Lessig ISBN: 0465039138 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
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Title: Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity by Lawrence Lessig ISBN: 1594200068 Publisher: The Penguin Press Pub. Date: 25 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System by Siva Vaidhyanathan ISBN: 0465089844 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 04 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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