Reading your praise of The Wealth of Networks, you describe it as covering “law, economics, and a bit of social theory”. Some years ago a read a book on economics (more like The Wealth of Nations) which also covered all three topics. Although it approached them from a very different angle than the book noted above, it is in my opinion just as important and FAR more readable. Unfortunately, it is written by a Peruvian Economics professor and has never become widely read. However, I would like to recommend it to you and your readers.

Title: The Other Path
Author: Hernando de Soto
Main subject: Why the third world economies remain third word economies, and what must be done to change them.

Regards,
Doug

I find it disheartening the number of -NC- items I see popping up around the place. Do you not think that BY-SA is, in reality too much for the people they’re trying to presumbly stop from profiteering from a work, yet liberal enough to allow people to make commercial usage from it, for example, someone adding it to a ‘value bundle’ of other works which can be sold for small amounts of money, or displayed on a website that makes pocket change from advertising.

matt

Michael Locker MD

Doesn’t Fair Use allow certain derivative uses anyway? Does this CC only apply to what Fair Use doesn’t apply to? Or has the government pretty much stripped any possible Fair Use out that the CC is needed to make derivatives.

Thanks.