Simply the best primer on the law and recent controversies, written in a clear and pointed style.

Lessig's second book extends the argument in <i>Code</i> by examining the way technological regulation works on multiple levels: physical infrastructure, code, and content.

A smart and wide-ranging analysis of the way copyright has always been a complicated issue for 20th century media culture, even before the Internet.

A sharp, sophisticated discussion of the way copyright plays out tensions of public rights and private ownership, by exploring some troubling cases -- including ownership of folk knowledge and of one's own genetic information.

Still the best history of copyright, focusing largely on the 17th and 18th centuries in England and Europe, where many of the persistent tensions in copyright law first emerged.

An analysis of copyright from a cultural perspective, with a particular attention to how copyright has extended its reach to an ever wider array of domains, bringing with it a particular and often constraining idea of what an 'author' is.

Copyright is one of five areas of Internet law that Spinello investigates, along with free speech, privacy, security, and fair competition.

Extends Lessig's argument that "code is law" by recognizing the power of code in multiple domains, and the way it facilitates control even when information or people are distributed and loosely organized, as the Internet promises.

A cultural studies take on copyright, with an eye for how corporate brands and appropriation challenge conventional understandings of authorship, cultural production, and meaning.

And, humbly... my contribution to the discussion. The book argues that, in the debate around technical copy protection, the big issue is not the technology but the political and cultural shifts being undertaken to make the technology possible. In the process of installing DRM we are changing what copyright means and altering the economic and political landscape of cultural production.