Two very good books on today’s problems with too strong IPRs
During my recent vacation at Gran Canaria I manage by the swimming pool to reread Lawrence Lessig’s “The Future of Ideas” and to read for the first time Siva Vaidhyanathan’s “The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System”.
Both books are highly recommended. They both emphasize the need for a large pool of information to be available freely from some sort of information commons in order to promote innovation and creativity both commercially and from a democratic perspective. And both books point to the fact that intellectual property rights have been more and more “propertized” largely by big multinational at the expenses of users and artists.
I want so much to write a book on these subjects for the Danish public!
