Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries. — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
Digital books and music are often different from their physical counterparts in that consumers buy licences to a work, revocable under an ongoing contract, rather than their own copies. — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
The Internet is a collective hallucination: one of the best humanity has ever generated. — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
Instead of using new technologies to preserve for ready discovery material that might in the past never have been stored, or deleting everything as… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
How an individual's reputation is protected online is too important and subtle a policy matter to be legislated by a high court, which is… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
Despite outsiders being invited to write software, the iPhone thus remains tightly tethered to its vendor - the way that the Kindle is controlled… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
The Internet's distinct configuration may have made cyberattacks easy to launch, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom. — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination of the… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
Another view is Western companies chartered in societies that believe in this kind of censorship shouldn't be carrying water for societies that do. — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
I'm interested in harnessing the good will and distributed power of people, including novices. — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
The Internet works thanks to loose but trusted connections among its many constituent parts, with easy entry and exit for new Internet service providers… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
A free Net may depend on some wisely developed and implemented locks and a community ethos that secures the keys to those locks among… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
All sorts of factors contribute to what Facebook or Twitter present in a feed, or what Google or Bing show us in search results.… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
I think social networking is absolutely here to stay. Now, whether or not the label will Facebook forever, depends in part, I think, on… — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
