Professor Ed Lee’s latest book, The Fight for the Future: How People Defeated Hollywood and Saved the Internet—For Now, is now available as a paperback. The Fight for the Future was originally self-published as an e-book in September 2013; the self-published print version is now being sold on Amazon.com and Lulu.com.
The book explains how a grassroots movement involving millions of people was able to defeat money, politicians, Hollywood, and the copyright lobby, all in the name of a “free and open Internet.” In particular, Prof. Lee describes the ways in which people used Facebook, Twitter, and other social media to organize and launch protests against SOPA and ACTA, two controversial copyright proposals in the United States and European Union that many feared would lead to Internet censorship. The protests included the infamous Wikipedia blackout of January 18, 2012, and mass demonstrations on the streets of over 250 cities in all 27 countries of the European Union.
For more information, visit the book website here.
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