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Author Doctorow, Cory, author

Title Content : selected essays on technology, creativity, copyright, and the future of the future / Cory Doctorow, doctorow@craphound.com
Edition First edition
Published San Francisco : Tachyon Publications, 2008

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Description xxii, 213 pages : 1 portrait ; 21 cm
Contents Foreword for Content / John Perry Barlow -- Microsoft research DRM talk -- The DRM sausage factory -- Happy Meal toys versus copyright : how American chose Hollywood and Wal-Mart, and why it's doom us, and how we might survive anyway -- Why is Hollywood making a sequel to the Napster wars? -- You DO like reading off a computer screen -- How do you protect artists? -- It's the information economy, stupid -- Downloads give Amazon jungle fever -- What's the most important right creators have? -- Giving it away -- Science fiction is the only literature people care enough about to steal on the Internet -- How copyright broke -- In praise of fanfic -- Metacrap putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia -- Amish for QWERTY -- Ebooks : neither E, nor books -- Free(konomic) ebooks -- The progressive apocalypse and other futurismic delights -- When the singularity is more than a literary device : an interview with futurist-inventor Ray Kurzweil -- Wikipedia : a genuine HG2G, minus the editors -- Warhol is turning in his grave -- The future of ignoring things -- Facebook's faceplant -- The future of Internet immune systems -- All complex ecosystems have parasites -- READ CAREFULLY -- World of democracycraft -- Snitchtown
Summary A collection of previously published articles and essays
Notes LC copy signed by author. DLC
The C in Content is represented by a copyright symbol on the cover
Subject Copyright and electronic data processing.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Digital media -- Philosophy.
Intellectual property.
Technological forecasting.
Technology -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Essays.
LC no. 2017478316
ISBN 1892391813 (paperback)
9781892391810 (paperback)
Other Titles Essays. Selections
Essays on technology, creativity, copyright, and the future of the future
Selected essays on technology, creativity, copyright, and the future of the future
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