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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818462403321

Autore

Johns Adrian

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-50427-4

9786612504273

0-226-40120-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (636 p.)

Disciplina

346.04/8

346.048

Soggetti

Intellectual property infringement - History

Piracy (Copyright) - History

Copyright infringement - History

Software piracy - History

Printing - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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