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

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

By Cory Doctorow

Information Doesn't Want to Be Free takes on the state of copyright and creative success in the digital age. Can small artists still thrive in the Internet era. Can giant record labels avoid alienating their audiences. This is a book about the pitfalls and the opportunities that creative industries (and individuals) are confronting today -- about how the old models have failed or found new footing, and about what might soon replace them.

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Publisher: McSweeney's
Publish Date: 11/24/2015
Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781940450469
ISBN-10: 1940450462
Language: Eng

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December 09, 2014

The 800-CEO-READ Business Book Awards category winners (and shortlist for the best book of the year) 2014. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

November 14, 2014

Cory Doctorow's new book is for those in the "creative industries" and, really, nowadays aren't we all? READ FULL DESCRIPTION

November 13, 2014

The culling process we undertake during the awards process is always rigorous, but we've narrowed it down to 40 books—5 each in 8 categories. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

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?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 creative success in the digital age. Can small artists still thrive in the Internet era? Can giant record labels avoid alienating their audiences? This is a book about the pitfalls, and the opportunities, creative industries (and individuals) are confronting today?about how the old models have failed or found new footing, and about what might soon replace them. An essential read for anyone with a stake in the future of the arts, Information Doesn't Want to Be Free offers a vivid guide to the ways creativity and the Internet interact today, and to what might be coming next.

About the Author

Canadian-born Cory Doctorow is the co-editor of the popular blog BoingBoing. He is the author of the young adult novel For the Win , and his adult science fiction novels and short stories have won him three Locus Awards and the John W.

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