UC Berkeley's Pamela Samuelson has written a detailed review of (and response to) Jessica Litman's 2001 book, _Digital Copyright_.

Jessica Litman believes the public needs a very good copyright lawyer, and if I have not mistaken her intentions, she is volunteering for the job. ... In _Digital Copyright_, she outlines a framework for a copyright law that would be a new and better deal for the public and would be short, comprehensible, and normative in character. ... _Digital Copyright_ is Litman’s paean to a future in which copyright will once again be a component of the nation’s enlightened information policy.

... Digital Copyright explains how and why some of these limiting doctrines have eroded and why the public should care.

... Litman has done a great service in translating the arcana of copyright law into plain English, in masterfully explicating the breakdown of the copyright policy process, and in re-conceptualizing copyright law for an information age.

Toward a 'New Deal' for Copyright for an Information Age [PDF]