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Piracy : the intellectual property wars from Gutenberg to Gates / Adrian Johns.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) K1401 .J645 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johns, Adrian.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intellectual property infringement--History.
- Intellectual property infringement.
- Piracy (Copyright)--History.
- Piracy (Copyright).
- Copyright infringement--History.
- Copyright infringement.
- Software piracy--History.
- Software piracy.
- Printing--History.
- Printing.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 626 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780226401188
- 0226401189
- OCLC:
- 317922618
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