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Barlow Home(stead)Page
Former lyricist for the Grateful Dead and co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Photographs, short biography, essays, interviews, lyrics, and photo album.
http://homes.eff.org/~barlow/

Cyberspace Independence Declaration
Barlow's manifesto posted to the net on February 8, 1996, the day after the Telecom Reform Act of 1996 was signed into law.
http://www.ibiblio.org/netchange/hotstuff/barlow.html

The Debate Over Internet Governance: John Perry Barlow
Barlow's comments on ICANN, the marketplace of ideas, laws in cyberspace, government vs. governance, and the future.
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/is99/governance/barlow.html

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
Non-profit, non-partisan organization, founded by Mitch Kapor and John Perry Barlow, working to protect fundamental civil liberties, including privacy and freedom of expression, in the arena of computers and the Internet.
http://www.eff.org/

The Hacker Crackdown: The Civil Libertarians
Part four of the electronic release of Bruce Sterling's book detailing how illicit copies of Apple source code led to the FBI visiting Barlow and triggered the founding of the EFF.
http://www.farcaster.com/sterling/part4.htm

India Today: What Stops Free Flow of Information is Dangerous
An interview by Roshni Jayakar during Barlow's visit to India. (December 6, 2000)
http://www.india-today.com/btoday/20001206/interview.html

Arnold King: Bobos in Camden
Essays on the Pop!Tech 2000 Conference, including one on Barlow's comment that "India gets it" and his selective reality. (October 30, 2000)
http://arnoldkling.com/~arnoldsk/aimst3/aimst325.html

The Music Magazine: Grateful for a Virtual Apple Pie
A review of Barlow's talk in Bangalore. (October 23, 2000)
http://www.themusicmagazine.com/barlowtalk.html

The Atlantic: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Copyright?
A roundtable on the future of intellectual property and copyright law in the digital age with panelists Barlow, Lawrence Lessig, Charles C. Mann, and Mark Stefik. (September 10, 1998)
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/forum/copyright/intro.htm

Red Herring Magazine: What Does John Perry Barlow Do?
An interview of the self-described "anticompany guy" by Alex Gove. (March 1, 1998)
http://www.redherring.com/Home/2414

Wired: It's a Poor Workman Who Blames His Tools
Article by Barlow about the perceived threats of technological change. (November 30, 1995)
http://www.wired.com/wired/scenarios/workman.html

ZKP: Interview of John Perry Barlow
Interview by János Sugár about cyberspace and the goals of the EFF. (October, 1995)
http://www.nettime.org/desk-mirror/zkp2/barlow.html

Shambhala Sun: John Perry Barlow
An interview by Bell Hooks on personal and metaphysical topics. (September, 1995)
http://www.shambhalasun.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=2089

Wired: The Economy of Ideas
An article by Barlow about patents and copyrights in the Digital Age. (March, 1994)
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.03/economy.ideas.html