Many of the outlinks from this web are to the Telepathy hypertext. Literature is not exhaustible, for the simple and sufficient reason that no single book is. At the risk of offering platitudes, I'd like to suggest two principles on which I base the following critique of copyright laws and the Western paradigm of intellectual property.
Information is raw data.
By itself, without a context or theory or human intention, it is an inert element, both amoral and senseless. Knowledge is the human use of information. Knowledge makes sense of information in a larger system. It is sensible, but it is also amoral. As our century has shown all too well and often, you can bend knowledge to unwise ends.