TY - GEN T1 - Western Frontier or Feudal Society?: Metaphors and Perceptions of Cyberspace AU - Yen, Alfred C. AB - This article offers feudal society as a metaphor for the emerging social organization of the Internet. It does so to illustrate how metaphors shape thinking about the Internet and to challenge the sometimes misleading comparison of the Internet to the Western frontier. KW - intellectual property KW - cyberspace KW - feudal KW - Internet governance KW - frontier DA - 2002-8-8 PY - 2024 PB - unav JO - Berkeley Technology Law Journal VL - 17 SP - 1207-1263 ER -