Remix

Author: Lawrence Lessig
Published: 2008
 

Excellent book. May be too simplistic for those conversant in copyright issues, but a good primer to help me better understand copyright, RIAA, and that whole Long Tail thing (sort of).
 

Also, very thorough explanation of how content can be closely held, open source, or a hybrid of the two. But how does this all relate to fiction writing?
 

Whatever incentives there may be to stay in the commons with complex, collaborative goods, that same incentive doesn't carry over automatically to all creative works. For these works [e.g. novels], nothing more than a norm will support keeping the resource open. And whether, or how, that norm survives is not, to me at least, clear. p.242

In other words: stay tuned.