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18 Duke L. & Tech. Rev. 1 (2019-2020)

handle is hein.journals/dltr18 and id is 1 raw text is: THE PAST AND FUTURE OF THE INTERNET: A SYMPOSIUM FOR JOHN PERRY BARLOW' JAMES BOYLET John Perry Barlow passed away on Feb 7th, 2018. John Perry's name is generally followed by a long list of qualities: poet, lyricist, rancher, civil libertarian, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, teller-of-stories, organizer of parties, bringer of light. Good friend. Certainly he was all of these. The picture above gives you some sense of his personality. But he was also the author of two influential essays in the very early days of the World Wide Web-A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace2 and Selling Wine Without Bottles: The Economy ofMind on the Global Net.3 Written in 1996, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace declared the moral and legal independence of the online world. Its tone, both hopeful and defiant, can be captured from this brief excerpt: Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather. We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear. 1 This article is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution, Non Commercial, Sharealike license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc- sa/3.0/. T William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law, Duke Law School 2 Originally published as John Perry Barlow, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, ELEC. FRONTIER. FOUND. (Feb. 8, 1996), https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence. The essay can also be found in this volume at 18 DUKE L. & TECH. REV. 5 (2019). 3 Originally published as John Perry Barlow, The Economy ofIdeas, WIRED (Mar. 1, 1994), https://www.wired.com/1994/03/economy-ideas/. The essay can also be found in this volume at 18 DUKE L. & TECH. REV. 8 (2019) (reprinted from John Perry Barlow, Selling Wine Without Bottles: The Economy of Mind on the Global Net, ELEC. FRONTIER FOUND., https://www.eff.org/pages/selling- wine-without-bottles-economy-mind-global-net).

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