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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 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. 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.
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"Doctorow...might be the perfect person to parse our deeply dystopian present." Baltimore City Paper
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"Required reading for creators making their ways through the new world." Kirkus Reviews (starred)
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"Author, Internet guru, and practical philosopher Cory Doctorow gives hard-headed advice about how to gain fame and fortune using the Internet. Along the way, he explains a great deal about the hidden workings and dangers of modern technology. Whether you want to make money online or just surf safely, there's much to learn in this fast-moving and entertaining narrative.” Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
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Cory Doctorow has been thinking longer and smarter than anyone else I know about how we create and exchange value in a digital age.” Douglas Rushkoff, author of Present Shock and Program or Be Programmed
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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
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"Doctorow throws off cool ideas the way champagne generates bubbles . . . [he] definitely has the goods." The San Francisco Chronicle
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"Cory Doctorow's punchy, instructive Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: New Laws for the Internet Age is a must-read for anyone who hopes to make a living selling creative work online. A buoyant and geeky manual, it teaches creators how to make today's complex intellectual property rules and technology work for them." San Francisco Chronicle
About the Author
Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, journalist, and blogger, as well as the coeditor of Boing Boing (boingboing.net) and the author of young adult novels like Homeland, Pirate Cinema, and Little Brother and novels for adults including Rapture of the Nerds and Makers. The former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and cofounder of the U.K. Open Rights Group, he lives in London.