What does a bill like PIPA/SOPA mean to our shareable world? Clay Shirky delivers a proper manifesto, a call to defend our freedom to create, discuss, link and share, rather than passively consume.

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ABOUT Clay Shirky

“Clay Shirky’s work focuses on the rising usefulness of decentralised technologies such as peer-to-peer, wireless networks, social software and open-source development.

He believes that new technologies enabling loose ­collaboration and taking advantage of ‘spare’ brainpower will change the way society works. They are enabling new kinds of co-operative structures to flourish as a way of getting things done in business, science, the arts and elsewhere and as an alternative to centralised and institutional structures, which he sees as self-limiting.

In his writings and speeches he has argued that ‘a group is its own worst enemy’. His clients have included Nokia, the Library of Congress and the BBC. Clay is an adjunct Professor in New York University’s Graduate Interactive Telecommunications Programme, where he teaches a course named ‘Social Weather’.

He’s the author of ‘Here Comes Everybody’, about the power of crowds, and the brand-new Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age.”

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