LEADER 03206nam 2200577 a 450 001 9910824987103321 005 20230802010328.0 010 $a0-674-06998-6 010 $a0-674-06503-4 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674065031 035 $a(CKB)2550000001038884 035 $a(EBL)3301225 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000836240 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11432723 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000836240 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11007783 035 $a(PQKB)10278544 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301225 035 $a(DE-B1597)178173 035 $a(OCoLC)806494623 035 $a(OCoLC)840442409 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674065031 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301225 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10661182 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001038884 100 $a20110902d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aThirteen ways to steal a bicycle$b[electronic resource] $etheft law in the information age /$fStuart P. Green 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (400 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-674-04731-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTheft law adrift -- The gist of theft -- Theft as a crime -- "Property" in theft law. 330 $aTheft claims more victims and causes greater economic injury than any other criminal offense. Yet theft law is enigmatic, and fundamental questions about what should count as stealing remain unresolved-especially misappropriations of intellectual property, information, ideas, identities, and virtual property. In Thirteen Ways to Steal a Bicycle, Stuart Green assesses our current legal framework at a time when our economy increasingly commodifies intangibles and when the means of committing theft and fraud grow ever more sophisticated. Was it theft for the editor of a technology blog to buy a prototype iPhone he allegedly knew had been lost by an Apple engineer in a Silicon Valley bar? Was it theft for doctors to use a patient's tissue without permission in order to harvest a valuable cell line? For an Internet "activist" to publish tens of thousands of State Department documents on his website?In this full-scale critique, Green reveals that the last major reforms in Anglophone theft law, which took place almost fifty years ago, flattened moral distinctions, so that the same punishments are now assigned to vastly different offenses. Unreflective of community attitudes toward theft, which favor gradations in blameworthiness according to what is stolen and under what circumstances, and uninfluenced by advancements in criminal law theory, theft law cries out for another reformation-and soon. 517 3 $a13 ways to steal a bicycle 606 $aTheft$zEnglish-speaking countries 615 0$aTheft 676 $a345/.0262 700 $aGreen$b Stuart P$0603121 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824987103321 996 $aThirteen ways to steal a bicycle$93985581 997 $aUNINA