About the Author

Siva Vaidhyanathan is the Robertson Family Professor of Media Studies and Law and Chair of the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia, and the author of "Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity" and "The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System."