Abstract
Who Owns Information? From Privacy to Public Access explores how the current legal framework in the United States is inadequate for dealing with issues arising from the proliferation of new information technologies. Branscomb shows how modes of information production, dissemination, and consumption have been fundamentally altered and how the law has not kept pace. She argues that as we move increasingly toward an economy where information is our primary good we must insure that information creators and providers are protected and compensated for their efforts or, as she puts it, "the information age may turn out to be a short-lived footnote to history!'