Piracy : the intellectual property wars from Gutenberg to Gates / Adrian Johns.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (636 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 realized-one that has been largely forgotten and is little understood.Piracy explores the intellectual property wars from the advent of print culture in

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612504273

9781282504271

1282504274

9780226401201

0226401200

OCLC:

590674165