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  Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy

  by Lawrence Lessig

  The author of Free Culture shows how we harm our children—and almost anyone who creates, enjoys, or sells any art form—with a restrictive copyright system driven by corporate interests. Lessig reveals the solutions to this impasse offered by a collaborative yet profitable “hybrid economy” . Lawrence Lessig, the reigning authority on intellectual property in the Internet age, spotlights the newest and possibly... (more)
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  The Little Book of Plagiarism

  by Richard A. Posner

  A concise, lively, and bracing exploration of an issue bedeviling our cultural landscape–plagiarism in literature, academia, music, art, and film–by one of our most influential and controversial legal scholars. Best-selling novelists J. K. Rowling and Dan Brown, popular historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Stephen Ambrose, Harvard law professor Charles Ogletree, first novelist Kaavya Viswanathan: all have rightly... (more)