Information Doesn't Want to Be Free Laws for the Internet Age

“Filled with wisdom and thought experiments and things that will mess with your mind." — Neil Gaiman, author of The Graveyard Book and American Gods In sharply argued, fast-moving chapters, Cory Doctorow's Information Doesn't Want to Be Free takes on the state of copyright and creativ...

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Main Authors: Doctorow, Cory, Gaiman, Neil, Palmer, Amanda
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Francisco McSweeney's 2014
Edition:1
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ISBN:9781940450285, 1940450284
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Table of Contents:
  • 3.14 What Works? -- 3.15 Copyright's Not Dead -- 3.16 Every Pirate Wants to Be an Admiral -- 3.17 It's Different This Time -- 3.18 All Revolutions Are Bloody -- 3.19 Cathedrals Versus the Protestant Reformation -- 3.20 Three-Hundred-Million-Dollar Movies -- 3.21 What Is Copyright For? -- 4. Epilogue -- 4.1 What Does the Future Hold? -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author
  • Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Forewords -- Neil Gaiman -- Amanda Palmer -- 0. Introduction: Detente -- 0.1 What Makes Money? -- 0.2 Don't Quit Your Day Job-Really -- 1. Doctorow's First Law: Any Time Someone Puts a Lock on Something That Belongs to You and Won't Give You the Key, That Lock Isn't There for Your Benefit -- 1.1 Anti-Circumvention Explained -- 1.2 Is This Copyright Protection? -- 1.3 So Is This Copy Protection? -- 1.4 Digital Locks Always Break -- 1.5 Understanding General-Purpose Computers -- 1.6 Rootkits Everywhere -- 1.7 Appliances -- 1.8 Proto-Appliances: The Inkjet Wars -- 1.9 Worse Than Nothing -- 2. Doctorow's Second Law: Fame Won't Make You Rich, But You Can't Get Paid Without It -- 2.1 Good at Spreading Copies, Good at Spreading Fame -- 2.2 An Audience Machine -- 2.3 Getting People to Care About Your Work -- 2.4 Content Isn't King -- 2.5 How Do I Get People to Pay Me? -- 2.6 Does This Mean You Should Ditch Your Investor and Go Indie? -- 2.7 Love -- 2.8 The New Intermediaries -- 2.9 Intermediary Liability -- 2.10 Notice and Takedown -- 2.11 So What's Next? -- 2.12 More Intermediary Liability, Fewer Checks and Balances -- 2.13 Disorganized Channels Are Good for Creators -- 2.14 Freedom Can Be Expensive, but Censorship Costs Us the World -- 3. Doctorow's Third Law: Information Doesn't Want to Be Free, People Do -- 3.1 What the Copyfight Is About -- 3.2 Two Kinds of Regulation -- 3.3 Anti-Tank Mines and Land Mines -- 3.4 Who's Talking? -- 3.5 Censorship Doesn't Solve Problems -- 3.6 The Problem with Cutting Off Access -- 3.7 Copyright and Human Rights -- 3.8 A World Made of Computers -- 3.9 Renewability: Digital Locks' Sinister Future -- 3.10 A World of Control and Surveillance -- 3.11 What Copyright Means in the Information Age -- 3.12 Copyright: Fit for Purpose -- 3.13 Term Extension Versus Samplers
  • Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Forewords -- Neil Gaiman -- Amanda Palmer -- 0. Introduction: Detente -- 0.1 What Makes Money? -- 0.2 Don't Quit Your Day Job-Really -- 1. Doctorow's First Law: Any Time Someone Puts a Lock on Something That Belongs to You and Won't Give You the Key, That Lock Isn't There for Your Benefit -- 1.1 Anti-Circumvention Explained -- 1.2 Is This Copyright Protection? -- 1.3 So Is This Copy Protection? -- 1.4 Digital Locks Always Break -- 1.5 Understanding General-Purpose Computers -- 1.6 Rootkits Everywhere -- 1.7 Appliances -- 1.8 Proto-Appliances: The Inkjet Wars -- 1.9 Worse Than Nothing -- 2. Doctorow's Second Law: Fame Won't Make You Rich, But You Can't Get Paid Without It -- 2.1 Good at Spreading Copies, Good at Spreading Fame -- 2.2 An Audience Machine -- 2.3 Getting People to Care About Your Work -- 2.4 Content Isn't King -- 2.5 How Do I Get People to Pay Me? -- 2.6 Does This Mean You Should Ditch Your Investor and Go Indie? -- 2.7 Love -- 2.8 The New Intermediaries -- 2.9 Intermediary Liability -- 2.10 Notice and Takedown -- 2.11 So What's Next? -- 2.12 More Intermediary Liability, Fewer Checks and Balances -- 2.13 Disorganized Channels Are Good for Creators -- 2.14 Freedom Can Be Expensive, but Censorship Costs Us the World -- 3. Doctorow's Third Law: Information Doesn't Want to Be Free, People Do -- 3.1 What the Copyfight Is About -- 3.2 Two Kinds of Regulation -- 3.3 Anti-Tank Mines and Land Mines -- 3.4 Who's Talking? -- 3.5 Censorship Doesn't Solve Problems -- 3.6 The Problem with Cutting Off Access -- 3.7 Copyright and Human Rights -- 3.8 A World Made of Computers -- 3.9 Renewability: Digital Locks' Sinister Future -- 3.10 A World of Control and Surveillance -- 3.11 What Copyright Means in the Information Age -- 3.12 Copyright: Fit for Purpose -- 3.13 Term Extension Versus Samplers