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Copyrights and copywrongs : the rise of intellectual property and how it threatens creativity / Siva Vaidhyanathan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vaidhyanathan, Siva.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Copyright--Social aspects--United States.
- Copyright.
- Copyright--United States--History.
- United States--Cultural policy.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (255 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Copyright reflects far more than economic interests. Embedded within conflicts over royalties and infringement are cultural values-about race, class, access, ownership, free speech, and democracy-which influence how rights are determined and enforced. Questions of legitimacy-of what constitutes "intellectual property" or "fair use," and of how to locate a precise moment of cultural creation-have become enormously complicated in recent years, as advances in technology have exponentially increased the speed of cultural reproduction and dissemination. In Copyrights and Copywrongs , Siva Vaidhyana
- Contents:
- Copyright and American culture : ideas, expressions, and democracy
- Mark Twain and the history of literary copyright
- Celluloid copyright and derivative works, or, How to stop 12 monkeys with one chair
- Hep cats and copy cats : American music challenges the copyright tradition
- The digital moment : the end of copyright?
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814788349
- 0814788343
- 9780814789087
- 0814789080
- OCLC:
- 779828391
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