(2012), plus the proceedings of the first major scientific conference held inside a computer game, Online Worlds (2010).
A journalist, activist, artist, and professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa, Kembrew McLeod is the author of Owning Culture: Authorship, Ownership, and Intellectual Property Law and has written music criticism for Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, Spin, Mojo, and the 2004 edition of the New Rolling Stone Album Guide. He is also the co-producer of a documentary on intellectual- property law, Copyright Criminals: This Is a Sampling Sport, which is currently in production, and he worked as a documentary producer at the Media Education Foundation. McLeod was involved in the traveling art show Illegal Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age, which traveled to New York, Chicago,Washington,D.C., and was hosted by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s Artist Gallery in 2003. You can download some of his work from h is Web site, http://kembrew.com
Dr. danah boyd is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, a Research Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales. Her work examines everyday practices involving social media, with specific attention to youth engagement, privacy, and risky behaviors. She recently co-authored Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning With New Media. She co-directed the Youth and Media Policy Working Group,funded by the MacArthur Foundation. She blogs at http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/ and tweets at @zephoria.
Travis McCrea is a 21 year old activist and entrepreneur, formerly an officer of the United States Pirate Party. He has moved to Canada and has run for Parliament through Pirate Party Canada, and uses direct action to protect civil liberties and the internet. He blogs at http://falkvinge.net and his ow n site, http://travismccrea.com
From the Internet to the iPod, technologies are transforming our society and empowering us as speakers, citizens, creators, and consumers. When our freedoms in the networked world come under attack, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the first line of defense. EFF broke new ground when it was founded in 1990 — well before the Internet was on most people's radar — and continues to confront cutting- edge issues defending free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights today. From the beginning, EFF has championed the public interest in every critical battle affecting digital rights.
Blending the expertise of lawyers, policy analysts, activists, and technologists, EFF achieves significant victories on behalf of consumers and the general public. EFF fights for freedom primarily in the courts, bringing and defending lawsuits even when that means taking on the US government or large corporations. By mobilizing more than 61,000 concerned citizens through our Action Center, EFF beats back bad legislation. In addition to advising policymakers, EFF educates the press and public.
Loreley MacTavish is a staunch supporter of human rights and privacy. She is an intensely private individual. She only agreed to allow us to run her piece in this book on the condition that we not divulge her identity. It is sad that such a remarkable person feels compelled to hide behind a curtain such as this, but these are the times we live in.
The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945 after the Second World War by 51 countries committed to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations and promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights. Their website is http://un.org
Rick Falkvinge is the founder of the first Pirate Party and is a political evangelist, traveling around Europe and the world to talk and write about ideas of a sensible information policy. He is also a net activist, building tunnels and tools whenever and wherever. His website is http://falkvinge.net He may also be found on Twitter at @Falkvinge.
Cory Doctorow ( http://craphound.com ) is a science fiction author, activist, journalist, and blogger – the co-editor of Boing Boing ( http://boingboing.net ) and the author of Tor Teens/HarperCollins UK novels like FOR THE WIN and the bestselling LITTLE BROTHER. He is the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in London.
Lawrence Lessig is a professor at Harvard Law School and is a director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics. The author of The Future of Ideas, Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace, Free Culture, Remix, and Republic, Lost, he is the chair of the Creative Commons project (http://creativecommons.org). He studied at the University of Pennsylvania, Cambridge University, and Yale Law School, and he clerked for Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. His web site is http://lessig.org
Brad Hall is the vice-chairman of the Florida Pirate Party and spokesman for the United States Pirate Party. He has been involved in Pirate Politics since 2009.
Nina Paley is the creator of the animated musical feature film Sita Sings the Blues, which has screened in over 150 film festivals and won over 35 international awards including the Annecy Grand Crystal, The IFFLA Grand Jury Prize, and a Gotham Award. Her adventures in our broken copyright system led her to copyLeft her film, and join QuestionCopyright.org as Artist-in-Residence. Prior to becoming an animator Nina was a syndicated cartoonist; she is now re-releasing all her old comics under a Creative Commons Share-Alike license. A 2006 Guggenheim Fellow, Nina is currently producing a series of animated shorts about intellectual freedom called Minute Memes.
Further Reading
No one becomes an expert in a field by reading just one book, no matter how good it is. Below is a (non- exhaustive) list of books that we feel you would enjoy if you enjoyed this one. Also, some of the below listed books may be either freely available from the author's website, or be released under a Creative Commons license. Many of the CC licensed books may be found at the United States Pirate Party Library, found online at http://wiki.pirate.is/index.php?title=Library. We are always looking for more books to read.
These books cover a range of topics, some of which were not covered in this book.
Access Denied edited by Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan Zittrain
Against Intellectual Monopoly by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine
Against Intellectual Property by N. Stephan Kinsella
Arts, Inc. by Bill Ivey
Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace by Lawrence Lessig
Common As Air by Lewis Hyde
Content by Cory Doctorow
Context by Cory Doctorow
Digitize This Book by Gary Hall
Edited Clean Version by Raiford Guins
Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy by Noam Chomsky
Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
Free by Chris Anderson
Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig
