Matt Stahl’s Unfree Masters: Recording Artists and the Politics of Work is an interesting book about the ways recording artists have been treated by California…
-By Raizel Liebler If you are a fan, you should read Laina Dawes‘ What are You Doing Here?: A Black Woman’s Life and Liberation in…
Kal Raustialia and Christopher Sprigman‘s The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation is a truly innovative book, pulling together disparate tales to give an overall…
Chicks Dig Time Lords is a breezy, joyous and thoughtful celebration of Doctor Who for new and old fandom stalwarts and even more casual fans…
Discourse on intellectual property has often only considered the value of IP from the perspective of law and economics. However, in this book, From Goods…
When I first heard about I Know Who You Are And I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy, my first…
This is a very positive book about the Internetz that honors Howard Stern within its title. Perhaps that is all you need to know about…
The best thing about this book is the title. Seriously, who wouldn’t want to learn about how to stop parasites? Especially when they are digital!…
Cutting Across Media: Appropriation Art, Interventionist Collage, and Copyright Law, edited by Kembrew McLeod & Rudolph Kuenzli, is a variety of essays (including photo essays)…
One of my go-to book purchases at the end of the year is the DeCapo Best Music Writing anthology. There’s no way for me to…