Contents: Introduction: development of copyright law after 1950; Part I International Developments: Burn Berne: why the leading international copyright convention must be repealed, Alan Story; Global law reform and rent-seeking: the case of intellectual property, Peter Drahos. Part II Enclosure: The second enclosure movement and the construction of the public domain, James Boyle; 'Culture wars': getting to peace, Lawrence Lessig. Part III Key Directions: Software as discourse: the power of intellectual property in digital architecture, Brian F. Fitzgerald; Fair use as innovation policy, Fred von Lohmann; The creative destruction of copyright: Napster and the new economics of digital technology, Raymond Shih Ray Ku; A First Amendment perspective on the construction of 3rd-party copyright liability, Alfred C. Yen; Rationalizing internet safe harbors, Mark A. Lemley; This town ain't big enough for the both of us - or is it? Reflections on copyright, the First Amendment and Google's use of others' content, David Kohler; The creative commons, Lawrence Lessig; Rethinking copyright: property through the lenses of unjust enrichment and unfair competition, Shyamkrishna Balganesh; Enabling open access to public sector information with creative commons licences: the Australian experience, Anne Fitzgerald, Neale Hooper and Brian Fitzgerald. Part IV Copyright, Culture and Meaning: Is there such a thing as postmodern copyright?, Peter Jaszi; Pirates, parasites, reapers, sowers, fruits, foxes... the metaphors of intellectual property, Patricia Loughlan; Copyright as myth, Jessica Litman; Creativity and culture in copyright theory, Julie E. Cohen. Part V Thinking of the Future: Preliminary thoughts on copyright reform, Pamela Samuelson; The dotCommunist Manifesto, Eben Moglen; A politics of intellectual property: environmentalism for the net?, James Boyle; Universal access to information, Hal R. Varian; Name index.