I'm skimming Lessig's book "The Future of Ideas". I think parts of it would be annoying if you weren't already basically sympathetic to the generally anarchist "information longs to be free" ideology.
But it would be sad if that annoyance kept you away from the book because he makes some very coherent nonpartisan arguments.
Among the most interesting is the framing of the copyright and patent debate in two profoundly different contexts. You may think that copyrights and patents support basic property rights to intangible things. Or you may think that copyrights and patents extend state supported monopolies in the interest of encouraging innovation for the good of all of us.
There are good arguments for both viewpoints. Lessig gives really good support for his assertion that the first viewpoint dominates the current debate to an unhealthy extent.
He also (and this is truly unusual for books that criticize the current state of affairs) devotes serious effort to outlining solutions or at least paths to solutions for the problems he documents.
All in all it's an unexpectedly good read and although certain sections date it firmly to the immediate post-napster timeframe, none of the problems he's talking about have been solved yet.
My favorite software license. Used by Perl and most perl modules. Basically, you can use it, you can change it, you can make money from it. If you change it you have to talk to the maintainer or rename it to avoid confusion.