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Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (2006) - Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006). ISBN: 0300110561. €34,89. USD 40.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

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1 [Wealth of Networks]. An online copy of Yochai Benkler's book is available under a Creative Commons Noncommercial Sharealike licence; it can be accessed through the author's website at http://www.benkler.org. It will also be interesting to see what becomes of the wiki “learning and research environment” centred around the book which, though largely a blank slate at time of writing, is located at http://www.benkler.org/wealth_of_networks/index.php/Main_Page.Google Scholar

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7 112 Yale L.J. 369 (2002). The article is available online under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial Sharealike licence at http://www.yale.edu/yalelj/112/BenklerWEB.pdf.Google Scholar

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19 Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. Dimension Films, 383 F.3d 390 (6th Cir. 2004) [Bridgeport Music].Google Scholar

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24 The Cluetrain Manifesto can be found online at http://cluetrain.com/#manifesto. The manifesto was largely aimed at corporations trying to leverage the vast internet audience, and its central message is “We are not seats or eyeballs or end users or consumers. We are human beings – and our reach exceeds your grasp. Deal with it.”Google Scholar

25 The IFLA Manifesto (http://www.ifla.org/III/misc/im-e.htm) is a paean to the right to freedom of expression and opinion found in Article 19 of the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, stating that “[internet] access should neither be subject to any form of ideological, political or religious censorship, nor to economic barriers.”Google Scholar

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