“Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.”
“Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of different physical and moral agencies, that unless there is a corresponding diversity in their modes of life, they neither obtain their fair share of happiness, nor grow up to the mental, moral, and aesthetic stature of which their nature is capable.” John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)

Contents
1. Introduction: A Moment of Opportunity and Challenge 1
Part One. The Networked Information Economy
2. Some Basic Economics of Information Production and Innovation 35
3. Peer Production and Sharing 59
4. The Economics of Social Production 91
Part Two. The Political Economy of Property and Commons
5. Individual Freedom: Autonomy, Information, and Law 133
6. Political Freedom Part 1: The Trouble with Mass Media 176
7. Political Freedom Part 2: Emergence of the Networked Public Sphere 212
8. Cultural Freedom: A Culture Both Plastic and Critical 273
9. Justice and Development 301
10. Social Ties: Networking Together 356
Part Three. Policies of Freedom at a Moment of Transformation
11. The Battle Over the Institutional Ecology of the Digital Environment 383
12. Conclusion: The Stakes of Information Law and Policy 460
Notes 475
Index 491