This collection of essays by Australian, New Zealand and Canadian authors, addresses some of the issues that face our society in deciding how best to handle access to, and monopolies over, knowledge. It includes detailed examination of the social, political and legal implications of free and open source software, and the future of copyright in the digital age. Topics covered include:

disclosure for security and competitive reasons in relation to open source and proprietary software and government systems;
flow licensing and contracting in the Canadian public sector;
an overview of the US Federal Communications Commission rules in relation to free software;
the implications of Jacobsen v Katzer for the legality of software licensing;
public access to primary legal information;
key legal issues for blogs;
the Virgin Mobile case and the use of Creative Commons licensed photographs by commercial entitites;
the Google Print Library project;
third-party copyright and public information infrastructure and registries;
academic authorship, publishing agreements and open access in Australia, and the legal framework for managing copyright and open access;
rights to access to digital information;
digital copyright reform in New Zealand.