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Copyright Scholars: Lawrence Lessig, Ross J. Anderson, Tim Wu, Eben Moglen, Eugene Volokh, Andrew Joseph Galambos, Siva Vaidhyanathan Books LLC Paperback (104 pages) List Price: $19.99* Lowest New Price: $19.99* Lowest Used Price: $31.15* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 13:01 Pacific 28 Jul 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Lawrence Lessig, Ross J. Anderson, Tim Wu, Eben Moglen, Eugene Volokh, Andrew Joseph Galambos, Siva Vaidhyanathan, James Boyle, Brian Fitzgerald, Yochai Benkler, Michael Geist, William F. Patry, Lewis Hyde, Tarleton Gillespie, Michael W. Carroll, Ronaldo Lemos, Lyman Ray Patterson, Ian Kerr, Pamela Samuelson, Pierre N. Leval, Melville Nimmer, Wendy Seltzer, Jane Ginsburg, Kimberlee Weatherall, Benjamin Kaplan, Jessica Litman, Christopher Yoo. Excerpt: Andrew Joseph Galambos (born Ifj. Galambos Jozsef Andras, 1924, in Hungary ; died April 10, 1997) created a theory of freedom . He was most famous for his strict stances on intellectual property rights. Galambos distinguished his theory from that of Ludwig von Mises (1949), Human Action , and sought to refute it. Early career Galambos moved to Los Angeles in 1952 to work for North American Aviation . Later, in 1958, he worked for Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation , which later became TRW Space Technology Laboratories . Academia Around 1960, Galambos left the aerospace industry to teach at Whittier College . In 1961, Galambos met with Ayn Rand , Ludwig von Mises , Leonard Read , Murray Rothbard , and Henry Hazlitt in New York . He also established The Free Enterprise Institute that year, which gave for-pay lectures on freedom and capitalism . Intellectual property Galambos felt that intellectual property owners should have primary control over their own ideas and over how others might secondarily use those ideas. According to Galambos, all forms of property came from a combination of "primordial property" (a person's life) and "primary property" (a person's own ideas). By using the natural resources available in the physical universe, individuals use their primordial property, guided by primary property (actions, guided by ideas, respect...

Gnu People: John Gilmore, Gerald Jay Sussman, Richard Stallman, Bradley M. Kuhn, Eben Moglen, Hal Abelson, Leonard H. Tower, Jr. Books LLC Paperback (86 pages) List Price: $14.14* Lowest New Price: $14.13* Lowest Used Price: $15.21* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 13:01 Pacific 28 Jul 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: John Gilmore, Gerald Jay Sussman, Richard Stallman, Bradley M. Kuhn, Eben Moglen, Hal Abelson, Leonard H. Tower, Jr., Benjamin Mako Hill, Georg C. F. Greve, William John Sullivan, Henry Poole, Peter H. Salus, Brian Fox, Franco Iacomella, Richard Fontana, Rob Savoye, Robert J. Chassell, Thomas Bushnell, Peter T. Brown, Loïc Dachary, Geoffrey Knauth, Daniel Ravicher. Excerpt: Benjamin Mako Hill (born December 2, 1980) is a Debian hacker , intellectual property researcher, activist and author. He is a contributor and free software developer as part of the Debian and Ubuntu projects as well as the author of two best-selling technical books on the subject, Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Bible (ISBN 978-0-7645-7644-7) and The Official Ubuntu Book (ISBN 978-0-13-243594-9). He currently serves as a member of the Free Software Foundation board of directors. Hill has a Masters degree from the MIT Media Lab and is currently a Senior Researcher at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he studies free software communities and business models. He is also a Fellow at the MIT Center for Future Civic Media where he coordinates the development of software for civic organizing, and works as an advisor and contractor for the One Laptop per Child project. He is a speaker for the GNU Project , and serves on the board of Software Freedom International (the organization that organizes Software Freedom Day ). Since 2006 he is married to Mika Matsuzaki, having used mathematically constrained wedding vows at the marriage ceremony. Debian Since 1999, Hill has been an active member of Debian . He has served as a delegate of the Debian Project Leader, managing money and equipment and is a founder and coordinator of Debian Non-Profit, a Debian custom distribution designed to fill the needs of small non-profit organ...