Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age
by:
Cory Doctorow (author)
Amanda Palmer (contributor)
Neil Gaiman (contributor)
In sharply argued, fast-moving chapters, Cory Doctorow’s Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free takes on the state of copyright and creative success in the digital age. Can small artists still thrive in the Internet era? Can giant record labels avoid alienating their audiences? This is a book about...
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In sharply argued, fast-moving chapters, Cory Doctorow’s Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free takes on the state of copyright and creative success in the digital age. Can small artists still thrive in the Internet era? Can giant record labels avoid alienating their audiences? This is a book about the pitfalls and the opportunities that creative industries (and individuals) are confronting today about how the old models have failed or found new footing, and about what might soon replace them. An essential read for anyone with a stake in the future of the arts, Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free offers a vivid guide to the ways creativity and the Internet interact today, and to what might be coming next.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781940450285 (1940450284)
Publish date: 2014-11-18
Publisher: McSweeney's
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Science,
Technology,
Computers,
Internet,
Business,
Economics,
Culture,
Philosophy,
Library Science
A quick and easy read that will get you thinking long and hard. What do we want our interconnected society to be? Should we let entertainment companies write our laws governing how computers and connections work? Is privacy a right for people or just for corporations? Short segments give good explan...