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Viral spiral : how the commoners built a digital republic of their own

A narrative history of the emergence of electronic "free culture" explains how strict intellectual property rights, hierarchies of credentialed experts, and other forms of centralized control are being challenged and reshaped by the world of digital media, in an account that includes coverage of such figures as hacker Richard Stallman and copyright scholar Lawrence Lessig

Print Book, English, ©2008
New Press, New York, ©2008