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Who Owns This Sentence? - A History of Copyrights and Wrongs

English · Paperback / Softback

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Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of artificial intelligence programs. Not only books but wallpaper, computer programs and cuddly toys are now deemed to be intellectual properties - making copyright a labyrinthine construction of laws covering almost all products of human creativity.

Copyright has its roots in eighteenth-century London, where it was first established to limit printers' control of books. Principled arguments against copyright arose from the start and nearly abolished it in the nineteenth century. But a handful of little-noticed changes in the late twentieth century concentrated ownership of immaterial goods into very few hands.

Who Owns This Sentence? is an often-humorous and always-enlightening cultural, legal, and global history of the idea that intangible things can be owned, and makes a persuasive case for seeing copyright as an engine of inequality in the twenty-first century.

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David Bellos, Alexandre Montagu

Summary

A fascinating and important exploration into how copyright has become a tool of unprecedented power and wealth for the few, widening the gap between the richest and poorest in society.

Foreword

A fascinating and important exploration into how copyright has become a tool of unprecedented power and wealth for the few, widening the gap between the richest and poorest in society.

Product details

Authors David Bellos, Bellos David, Alexandre Montagu
Publisher Headline Book
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 10.12.2024
 
EAN 9781914495885
ISBN 978-1-914495-88-5
No. of pages 384
Dimensions 128 mm x 198 mm x 28 mm
Weight 272 g
Subjects Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, Memoirs, LAW / Intellectual Property / General, Economic history, Social issues & processes, Social discrimination & inequality

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