Piracy The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates

Name: Piracy The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates
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ISBN: 9780226401195

ISBN-10: 0226401197

ISBN-13: 9780226401195

Edition: 2011

Authors: Adrian Johns

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Since the rise of Napster and other file sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. The Motion Picture Association of America, for instance, claimed that in 2005 the film industry lost $2.3 billion in revenue to piracy online. But here Adrian Johns shows that piracy has a much longer and more vital history than we have realizedone that has been largely forgotten and is little understood. Piracyexplores the intellectual property wars from the advent of print culture in the fifteenth century to the reign of the Internet in the twenty-first. Written with a historian's…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/30/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 640
Size: 5.71" wide x 9.84" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English




A General History of the Pirates



The Invention of Piracy



The Piratical Enlightenment



Experimenting with Print



Pharmaceutical Piracy and the Origins of Medical Patenting



Of Epics and Orreries



The Land without Property



Making a Nation



The Printing Counterrevolution



Inventors, Schemers, and Men of Science



International Copyright and the Science of Civilization



The First Pirate Hunters



The Great Oscillation War



Intellectual Property and the Nature of Science



The Pirate at Home and at Large



From Phreaking to Fudding



Past, Present, and Future


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index