Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity. (Books in review: the control of ideas). (book review)

Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity By Siva Vaidhyanathan. New York University Press, 243 pages, $27.95 ASPECTER IS HAUNTING culture: the specter of intellectual-property law. Soon every embodiment, however ephemeral, of thought or imagination may be defined as a "product," its every use commercially controlled.

Thanks to digital technology, as Lawrence Lessig pointed out in his Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999), a book is potentially no longer just a book. An online publisher, for example, will be able ...

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