Digital rights books and texts
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See also: Digital rights films and videos
A
- 'The Parents Guide to Protecting Your Children in Cyberpace' by Parry Aftab
- 'The Internet, Law and Society' Edited by Yaman Akdeniz, Clive Walker and David Wall
- 'Sonic Boom' by John Alderman
- 'Security Engineering' by Ross Anderson
- 'The Truth about Drug Companies' By Marica Angell
B
- 'Music Business Agreements' by Bagehot
- 'Beyond Our Control' by Stuart Biegel
- 'The Wealth Of Networks' By Yochai Benkler
- 'Silent Theft' by David Bollier
- 'Brand Name Bullies' by David Bollier
- 'Shamans, Software and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society' by Jamie Boyle
- 'Bound By Law? (Tales from the Public Domain)' by Jamie Boyle, Jennifer Jenkins and Keith Aoki
- 'The Transparent Society' by David Brin
- 'The Social Life of Information' by Brown & Duguid
- 'Weaving the Web: Origins and Future of the World Wide Web' by Tim Berners-Lee
C
- 'Deliver the Vote: A History of Election Fraud, An American Political Tradition 1742-2004' by Tracey Campbell
- 'Digital Decision Making: Back to the Future' by Ray Corrigan
- 'Microserfs' by Douglas Coupland (fiction)
D
- 'Intellectual Property Law (2nd Edition)' by Jennifer Davis (from the OUP's Core Text Series)
- 'Public Innovation' by Will Davies and Kay Withers (IPPR)
- 'Hit Men' by Fredric Dannen
- 'Open Sources' & 'Open Sources 2.0) by Chris DiBona et al
- 'Privacy on the Line' by Whitfield Diffie & Susan Landau
- 'Information Feudalism' by Peter Drahos
- 'Release 2.0' by Ester Dyson
E
- 'Law and the Internet' Edited by Lilian Edwards and Charlotte Waelde
- 'Ben Franklin's Website' by Robert Ellis Smith
F
- 'Promises to Keep: Technology, Law and the Future of Entertainment' by William W. Fisher III
G
- 'Database Nation' by Simson Garfinkel
- 'The File' by Timothy Garton Ash
- 'The Torture Debate in America' Edited by Karen J. Greenberg
- 'Net wars' by Wendy Grossman
- 'From Anarchy to Power' by Wendy Grossman
- 'The $800 millon Pill' by Merrill Goozner
- 'Steal this Vote' by Andrew Gumbel
H
- 'Identity Crisis' By Jim Harper
- 'Privacy Lost' by David Holtzman
K
- 'Borders in Cyberspace' by Brian Kahin and Charles Nesson
- 'Out of Control' by Kevin Kelly
- 'Just Law' by Helena Kennedy
- 'Music Licensing' by Kohn
L
- 'The Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law' by William Landes and Richard Posner
- 'Darknet' by J.D. Lasica
- 'The Future of Ideas' by Lawrence Lessig
- 'Free Culture' by Lawrence Lessig
- 'Code Version 2.0' by Lawrence Lessig
- 'Crypto' by Steven Levy
- 'Digital Copyright' by Jessica Litman
M
- 'Rebel Code' by Glyn Moody
- 'Ruling the Root' by Milton Mueller
- 'Murder in Samarkland' by Craig Murray
- 'Censoring Culture: Contemporary Threats to Freedom of Expression' Edited by Svetlana Mintcheva and Robert Atkins
- 'Freedom of Expression®: Overzealous Copyright Bozos and Other Enemies of Creativity' by Kembrew McLeod (2005, Random House / Doubleday)
N
- 'A Brief History of the Future' by John Naughton
O
- 'No Place to Hide' by Robert O'Harrow
- 'Stealing Democracy' by Spencer Overton
P
- 'The Best Democracy Money Can Buy' by Greg Palast
- 'Steal this Idea' by Michael Perelman
- 'Tangled Web' by Richard Power
R
- 'Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping by Patrick Radden Keefe
- 'The Justice Game' by Geoffrey Robertson
- 'The Unwanted Gaze' by Jeffrey Rosen
- 'Privacy and the Press' by Jonathan Rosenberg
- 'Cyberlaw: the law of the Internet' Jonathon Rosenoer
- 'Brave New Ballot' by Aviel Rubin
S
- Pamela Samuelson? http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~pam/papers.html
- 'The History and Politics of Voting Technology' by Roy Saltman
- 'Owning the Future' by Seth Shulman
- 'Secrets & Lies' by Bruce Schneier
- 'Beyond Fear' By Bruce Schneier
- 'Dear Images: Art, Copyright and Culture' edited by Karsten Schubert and Daniel McClean
- 'The Control Revolution' by Andrew Shapiro
- 'Censorship Inc' By Lawrence Soley
- 'The Digital Person' by Daniel J. Solove
- 'The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumour and Privacy on the Net' by Daniel J. Solove
- 'Silicon Snake Oil' by Clifford Stoll
- 'The Empire of Mind: Digital Piracy and the Anti-Capitalist Movement' by Michael Strangelove
- 'Common Thread' by John Sulston
- 'Laws of Fear' by Cass Sunstein
- 'Free Software, Free Society' by Richard M Stallman
T
- 'Copy Fights: The Future Of Intellectual Property In The Information Age' (ed. Adam Thierer and Clyde Wayne Crews Jr)
- 'Copy Fights: The Future of Intellectual Property in the Information Age' by Adam Thierer
- 'The Frodo Franchise' by Kristin Thompson
- 'Powershift' by Alvin Toffler
V
- 'Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity' by Siva Vaidhyanathan
- 'The Anarchist in the Library' by Siva Vaidhyanathan
W
- 'Sex, Laws and Cyberspace' by Jonathan Wallace and Mark Mangan
- 'Rebels on the Air' by Jesse Walker
- 'A Hacker Manifesto' by McKenzie Wark
- 'The Construction of Authorship' Martha Woodmansee & Peter Jaszi
Z
- 'Technological Complements to Copyright' by Jonathan Zittrain
- 'The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It' by Jonathan Zittrain