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Miguel Caetano
What follows is a list of essential books to read about copyrights, copyleft, intellectual property, free culture and music:
- Boldrin, Michele and Levine, David K.: Against Intellectual Property (Cambridge University Press, 2008) http://www.dklevine.com/general... - Miguel Caetano
- Bollier, David: Viral Spiral. How Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own (New Press, 2009) http://www.viralspiral.cc/downloa... - Miguel Caetano
- Boyle, James: The Public Domain. Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press, 2008) http://www.thepublicdomain.org/downloa... - Miguel Caetano
- Fisher, William: Promises to Keep. Technology, Law and the Future of Entertainment ((Stanford University Press, 2004) http://www.tfisher.org/PTK.htm http://books.google.pt/books... - Miguel Caetano
- Lessig, Lawrence: The Future of Ideas. The Fate of The Commons in a Connected World (Random House, 2001) http://www.the-future-of-ideas.com/downloa... - Miguel Caetano
- Lessig, Lawrence: Free Culture. How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity (Penguin, 2004) http://www.free-culture.cc/freecon... - Miguel Caetano
- Lessig, Lawrence: REMIX. Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy (Penguin, 2008) http://remix.lessig.org/ - Miguel Caetano
- Leonhard, Gerd: Music 2.0 (2008) http://www.music20book.com/ - Miguel Caetano
- Kusek, Dave and Leonhard, Gerd: The Future of Music. Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution (Berklee Press, 2005) - Miguel Caetano
- Rifkin, Jeremy: The Age of Access. The New Culture of Hypercapitalism, Where all of Life is a Paid-For Experience (Tarcher, 2001) - Miguel Caetano
- Benkler, Yochai: The Wealth of Networks. How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (Yale University Press, 2007) http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wealth_... - Miguel Caetano
- Vaidhyanathan, Siva: Copyrights and Copywrongs. The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity (New York University Press, 2001) http://books.google.pt/books... - Miguel Caetano
- Vaidhyanathan, Siva: The Anarchist in the Library. How the Clash Between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System (Basic Books, 2004) - Miguel Caetano
- Smiers, Joost: Un mundo sin copyright. Artes y medios en la globalización (Gedisa, 2006) http://www.culturelink.org/news... - Miguel Caetano
Thanks for this :) Which one would you recommend first ? - stanjourdan
@Stanislas: I guess Lessig's books are quite good to get into copyright and intellectual property as a whole. Vaidhyanathan is also a superb writer. - Miguel Caetano