for those of you interested in the "right to tinker," here's full text of a piece looking at a suite of cultural, political, and legal challenges to the "right to create" during the 4th stage of the information society (roughly 1990s-2001). in this, the 5th stage, the topic could use revisiting .....
http://www.uwm.edu/~braman/bramanpdfs/create.pdf sandra braman # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]