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- Mike Riegel, Senior Staff Writer, Central Florida Future, UCF, Orlando, FL

Press Conference Book Reviews

Fitehouse will be taking the podium to review important literature in the area of the Cultural Commons, Copyright and Intellectual Property Abuses. Fitehouse is here to help you with your ongoing education! 

 

What's on Fitehouse's reading list?

 

  • Boldrin, Michele and Levines, David K. Against Intellectual Monopoly.

  • Bollier, David. Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of our Common Wealth.

  • Collected Papers: Duke Conference on the Public Domain. Compilation, Editor Boyle, James.

  • Demers, Joanna. Steal This Music: How Intellectual Property Law Affects Musical Creativity.

  • Heller, Michael. Grid Lock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation and Costs Lives.

  • Lessig, Lawrence. Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity.

  • Lessig, Lawrence. The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World.

  • McLeod, Kembrew. Freedom of Expression: Resistance and Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property.

  • Rose, Mark. Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright.

  • Scafidi, Susan. Who Own's Culture?: Appropriation and Authenticity in American Law.

  • Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice. Compilation, Editors, Hess, Charlotte and Ostrom, Elinor.

  • Vaidhyanathan, Siva. Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity.

  • Vaidhyanathan, Siva. The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System.

  • Weinstock, Netanel. Copyright's Paradox.

 

 

Come back soon to watch one of our press conference book reviews, and expand your consciousness!