Just finishing up the latest book by Lawrence Lessig entitled “Remix”. Once again I think that Professor Lessig proves to be the clearest thinker about where we are headed in the world of intellectual property. Many thinkers on these issues today are either so biased towards the sanctity of the economic value of each and every thing created – or have chosen to be intellectual property nihilists who consider the very term “intellectual property” to be an oxymoron. Lessig takes a much more measured approach and argues convincingly for the “middle way”. Professor Lessig always seems to get it right.
Here are some more of Lessig’s books and one large tome by another law professor, Yochai Benkler, that should be considered the manifesto of the value of the Internet to the global community. Good reads.