The always eloquent Robert Boynton has written the book review to end all book reviews -- at least for copyfighters. It's an in-depth look at four books on the contemporary movement to restore consitutional balance to copyright:

• Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity by Larry Lessig,
  
• Brand-Name Bullies: The Quest to Own and Control Culture by David Bollier -- a great thinker on these issues since way back,
  
• Shamans, Software and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society by Jamie Boyle -- in my memory the first to connect IP reform with the environmentalist movement, and
  
• Freedom of Expression: Overzealous Copyright Bozos and Other Enemies of Creativity, by Kembrew McLeod -- well known as the fellow who trademarked the phrase, "Freedom of Expression." Yes, really.
  

The cultural prong of digital environmentalism has had somewhat more success. Represented by writers like Bollier, Vaidhyanathan ..., Kembrew McLeod ..., and others, they all advocate the path of activism and resistance. Working within existing law, they propose that artists and authors aggressively exercise their intellectual property rights in the face of threats and legal challenges from overbearing copyright holders. Bollier, for one, perceives the work of digital environmentalists as benefiting from the momentum generated by legal challenges like Lessig's. "Acts of civil disobedience against the antisocial, personally intrusive claims of copyright law have only grown since the Eldred ruling, in part because of it," he writes.