| Sumario: | Part of a special section on anthropological research on free software or open source software in widely disparate social spaces and global locations. The writer discusses copyright in everyday practice and theory as a spectrum and highlights the immense gap that separates copyright's social and legal meanings. He emphasizes the crucial contribution of anthropology to the copyright debate. Furthermore, he asserts that although there has been little formal cooperation between lawyers and anthropologists in the field of copyright until now, the more that lawyers come to recognize that the real action in the copyright debate occurs not in the courtroom but in the wilds of culture, the more they should turn to the natives of norms—anthropologist and artists—to formulate plans for a new system of alternative copyright.
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