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Author Johns, Adrian.
Title Piracy : the intellectual property wars from Gutenberg to Gates / Adrian Johns.
Publication Info Chicago, [Ill.] ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.


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Descript 626 p. : ill., ports.
Note Originally published: 2009.
This work explores the intellectual property wars from the advent of print culture in the 15th century to the reign of the Internet in the 21st. 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 the fifteenth century to the reign of the Internet in the twenty-first. Brimming with broader implications for today's debates over open access, fair use, free culture, and the like, Johns's book ultimately argues that piracy has always stood at the center of our attempts to reconcile creativity and commerce-and that piracy has been an engine of social, technological, and intellectual innovations as often as it has been their adversary. From Cervantes to Sonny Bono, from Maria Callas to Microsoft, from Grub Street to Google, no chapter in the story of piracy evades Johns's graceful analysis in what will be the definitive history of the subject for years to come.
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Author Johns, Adrian.
Subject Intellectual property infringement -- History.
Piracy (Copyright) -- History.
Printing -- History.
Descript 626 p. : ill., ports.
Note Originally published: 2009.
This work explores the intellectual property wars from the advent of print culture in the 15th century to the reign of the Internet in the 21st. 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 the fifteenth century to the reign of the Internet in the twenty-first. Brimming with broader implications for today's debates over open access, fair use, free culture, and the like, Johns's book ultimately argues that piracy has always stood at the center of our attempts to reconcile creativity and commerce-and that piracy has been an engine of social, technological, and intellectual innovations as often as it has been their adversary. From Cervantes to Sonny Bono, from Maria Callas to Microsoft, from Grub Street to Google, no chapter in the story of piracy evades Johns's graceful analysis in what will be the definitive history of the subject for years to come.
Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780226401201 (e-book)
Author Johns, Adrian.
Subject Intellectual property infringement -- History.
Piracy (Copyright) -- History.
Printing -- History.

Subject Intellectual property infringement -- History.
Piracy (Copyright) -- History.
Printing -- History.
Descript 626 p. : ill., ports.
Note Originally published: 2009.
This work explores the intellectual property wars from the advent of print culture in the 15th century to the reign of the Internet in the 21st. 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 the fifteenth century to the reign of the Internet in the twenty-first. Brimming with broader implications for today's debates over open access, fair use, free culture, and the like, Johns's book ultimately argues that piracy has always stood at the center of our attempts to reconcile creativity and commerce-and that piracy has been an engine of social, technological, and intellectual innovations as often as it has been their adversary. From Cervantes to Sonny Bono, from Maria Callas to Microsoft, from Grub Street to Google, no chapter in the story of piracy evades Johns's graceful analysis in what will be the definitive history of the subject for years to come.
Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780226401201 (e-book)
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