'Darknet' resources

Following is a clearinghouse for information about emerging media forms, the remix revolution, fair use and copyright in the digital age, and other issues addressed in Darknet. Users are welcome to add pointers to additional books, online articles and resources.

Books

We the Media
by Dan Gillmor
O'Reilly, August 2004; ISBN: 0596007337

The Media Lab
by Nicholas Negroponte
September 1988, Penguin Books; ISBN: 0140097015

Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
by Lawrence Lessig
February 2005 (paperback), Penguin; ISBN: 0143034650

The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
by Lawrence Lessig
October 2001, Random House; ISBN: 0375505784

Freedom of Expression (R) : Overzealous Copyright Bozos and Other Enemies of Creativity
by Kembrew McLeod
Doubleday. February 2005; ISBN: 0385513259

The Anarchist in the Library
by Siva Vaidhyanathan
Basic Books, April 2004; ISBN: 0465089844

Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity
by Siva Vaidhyanathan
August 2001, New York University Press; ISBN: 0814788068

Brand Name Bullies
by David Bollier
John Wiley & Sons, December 2004; ISBN: 0471679275

Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth
by David Bollier
Routledge, June 2003; ISBN: 0415944821

Democratizing Innovation
by Eric von Hippel
MIT Press, April 2005; ISBN: 0262002744

Promises to Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment
by William Fisher
Stanford University Press, August 2004; ISBN: 0804750130

Copy Fights: The Future of Intellectual Property in the Information Age
by Adam D. Thierer and Wayne Crews (Editors)
July 2002, Cato Institute; ISBN: 1930865244

Digital Copyright: Protecting Intellectual Property on the Internet
by Jessica Litman
March 2001, Prometheus Books; ISBN: 157392889

Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
by Howard Rheingold
November 2002, Perseus Publishing; ISBN: 0738206083

Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies
by Andy Oram (Editor)
March 2001, O'Reilly & Associates; ISBN: 059600110X

Steal This File Sharing Book
by Wallace Wang
No Starch Press, October 2004; ISBN: 159327050X

Sonic Boom: Napster, MP3, and the New Pioneers of Music
by John Alderman
August 2001, Perseus Publishing; ISBN: 0738204056

The Art of Digital Music
by David Battino, Kelli Richards
Backbeat Books, January 2005; ISBN: 0879308303

How to Do Everything With MP3 and Digital Music
by Dave Johnson, Rick Broida
McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, November 2001; ISBN: 0072194138

Cyber Rights : Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age
by Mike Godwin
July 1998, Times Books/Crown; ISBN: 0812928342

Next: The Future Just Happened
by Michael Lewis
July 2001, W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 0393020371

Hot Property: The Stealing of Ideas in an Age of Globalization
by Pat Choate
Knopf, April 2005; ISBN: 0375402128

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Law

Title 17 of the US Code governing copyright, including section 1201, Circumvention of copyright protection systems

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 prohibits citizens from circumventing locks on digital media even for legitimate purposes.

The No Electronic Theft Act of 1997.

Reports

Pew Internet & American Life Project: Artists, musicians and the Internet, Dec. 5, 2004.

EFF: How Not To Get Sued By The RIAA For File-Sharing (And Other Ideas to Avoid Being Treated Like a Criminal).

Organizations

Public Knowledge: This public-interest organization won the court fight against the broadcast flag.

Electronic Frontier Foundation: The ACLU of digital liberties, the group is at the forefront of nearly all battles over cyberspace freedoms.

Slashdot has the most tech-savvy community online, with thousands of postings about remix culture, video and audio capture and encoding, and much, much more.

Freeculture.org: an international student campaign launched at Swarthmore College to preserve digital liberties.

The Participatory Culture Foundation is building an open platform for Internet TV and video.

Ourmedia hosts thousands of grassroots media works — forever, for free.

Downhill Battle is a non-profit organization working to support participatory culture and build a fairer music industry.

Recording Industry Association of America: The RIAA takes a slightly different point of view.

Motion Picture Association of America: So does the MPAA.

RespectCopyrights.org, a project of the MPAA.

Music United consists of musicians and artists who urge people not to share copyrighted works.

Keep Music Coming is a project of the Canadian Value of Music Coalition.

Report Piracy is sponsored by Movie Zone UK.

International Intellectual Property Alliance is a private sector coalition formed in 1984.

Other groups on the knife's blade of digital rights and copyright include Consumers Union, Consumer Electronics Association, the American Library Association, the Center for Democracy and Technology, DigitalConsumer.org, the Alliance for Digital Progress, Protectfairuse.org, the Home Recording Rights Coalition, Media Access Project, the Digital Speech Project, Boycott-RIAA.com, Anti-DMCA.org, New Yorkers for Fair Use, and Britain’s Campaign for Digital Rights.

Companies monitoring or trying to foil P2P services:

MediaDefender
Overpeer
Covenant Corp.
BayTSP
BigChampagne

Companies trying to expand the digital media marketplace:

Snocap
JunGroup

More resources

See the Tools section for information about users taking control of their digital media.

Slyck.com offers statistics on P2P network usage.

Magazine articles

There are thousands of magazine and online articles about these topics. See the Topics menu in the right nav of Darknet.com to see articles broken down by subject.

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