Intellectual Property Law

JZ?s New Book on SSRN

By Greg Lastowka

Personally, I bought the hard copy (I like bound books more than stacks of copy paper), but kudos go out to Jon Zittrain for putting his brand new hot-off-the-press book on SSRN. I’ve made the point before that many authors like reaching the public as much as making money- and often these aren’t mutually exclusive propositions, but, to take Jon’s own idiosyncratic way of characterizing the information sharing trend, there is some kind of H.R. Pufnstuf vibe (again-that’s him, not me) about this trend toward book + free. In the future — scratch that — in the present, we’re able to build a pretty darn good library of books by just hitting the download button.

Maybe copyright law should adapt a bit?

Sigh.  As if.

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Full post as published by Madisonian.net on May 01, 2008 (boomark / email).