 | The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle
Buy new: $18.81 / Used from: $12.50 My attempt to sum up the debate in a single book.
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 | The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World by Lawrence Lessig
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.88 Brilliant and accessible introduction to the way we fail to understand the power of "the commons"
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 | Digital Copyright by Jessica Litman
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $9.64 A brilliant detailed account of the digital copyright wars.
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 | Bound by Law?: Tales from the Public Domain, New Expanded Edition by Keith Aoki
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $4.26 A light-hearted comic book introduction to copyright law and fair use.
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 | The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom by Yochai Benkler
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $8.98 Benkler's book will change the way you think about markets and freedom. Brilliant
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 | No Law: Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment by David Lange
Buy new: $21.80 / Used from: $27.45 What would happen to intellectual property law if we took an absolutist approach to the First Amendment?
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 | Copyright's Highway: From Gutenberg to the Celestial Jukebox by Paul Goldstein
Buy new: $20.95 / Used from: $1.26 Magisterial introduction to copyright law -- with a more positive attitude towards its expansive tendencies.
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 | Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do About It by Adam B. Jaffe
Buy new: $21.95 / Used from: $7.08 The title says it all.
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 | Shamans, Software and Spleens : Law and the Construction of the Information Society by James Boyle
Buy new: $24.75 / Used from: $16.03 Why we think what we think about the control of information, from blackmail and insider trading, to owning genetic sequences..
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 | Freedom of Expression: Resistance and Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property by Kembrew McLeod
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $7.96 Extremely readable
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 | Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity by Siva Vaidhyanathan
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $7.21 Worth reading for the discussions of music alone.
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 | Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright by Mark Rose
Buy new: $17.00 / Used from: $16.65 A lucid historical account of the invention of copyright in the 18th century, and the fights over aesthetics and ownership that it precipitated. Brilliant.
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 | Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk by James Bessen
Buy new: $34.36 / Used from: $12.49 Another detailed and empirically grounded assessment of the failures of the patent system.
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 | Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy by Lawrence Lessig
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $4.29 The account of the hybrid economy enabled by the net -- part free, part for profit -- is the best of its kind
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