Everyone Breaks These Laws

How Copyrights Made the Online World

Gerardo Con Diaz

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Yale University Press
12 August 2025

Law & society; Copyright law; Impact of science & technology on society

Copyright's profound impact on the online world as we know it

This book is a captivating exploration of the profound impact of American copyright law on our online lives. By telling stories about hope, art, greed, and fear and how they have affected the legal dimensions of creativity and technological change, this book uncovers the hidden forces shaping our digital world.

Gerardo Con Díaz examines the strange world of online copyrights from the 1990s to today's AI-driven era, showing how our ability to immerse ourselves in digital media depends on the erosion of what it means for people to own their creative works, online and offline. He delves into the often overlooked impact of digital ownership on privacy and self-expression in this fascinating field guide to the complex landscape of online rights.

By: Gerardo Con Diaz
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9780300251265
ISBN 10: 0300251262
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 12 August 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Gerardo Con Díaz is professor of science and technology studies at the University of California, Davis, and an editor of Studies in Computing and Culture, a book series on the social studies of digital technology. He is the author of the prize-winning book Software Rights.

Reviews for Everyone Breaks These Laws: How Copyrights Made the Online World

“A brilliant encore to his Software Rights, Con Díaz’s Everyone Breaks These Laws skillfully analyzes copyright law and online culture. Exploring privacy, property, and power, it is an essential historical scaffolding informing new challenges with copyright and AI.”— Jeffrey R. Yost, author of Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry