Piracy - The Intellectual Property Wars From Gutenberg to Gates

Informationen zum Autor Adrian Johns is professor of history and chair of the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making , also published by the University of Chicago Press. Klappentext Originally published in hardcover: 2009. Zusammenfassung 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. This title explores the intellectual property wars from the advent of print culture in the fifteenth century to the reign of the Internet.

Product details

• Authors: Adrian Johns, Adrian (Norton) Johns, Johns Adrian
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.04.2011
• EAN: 9780226401195
• ISBN: 978-0-226-40119-5
• No. of pages: 640
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 229 mm x 33 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, History of Ideas, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, LAW / Intellectual Property / General, Social and cultural history, intellectual property law, Ethical issues and debates