TY - BOOK ID - 521457 TI - Piracy : the intellectual property wars from Gutenberg to Gates AU - Johns, Adrian AU - University of Chicago Press PY - 2009 SN - 9780226401195 0226401197 9780226401188 0226401189 9786612504273 1282504274 0226401200 PB - Chicago ; London University of Chicago Press DB - UniCat KW - Book history KW - Industrial and intellectual property KW - 347.78 <09> KW - 655.4:347.78 KW - 82:34 KW - Auteursrecht--Geschiedenis van ... KW - Uitgeverij. Boekhandel--algemeen-:-Auteursrecht KW - Literatuur en rechtswetenschappen KW - Copyright infringement KW - Intellectual property infringement KW - Piracy (Copyright) KW - Printing KW - Software piracy KW - History. KW - 82:34 Literatuur en rechtswetenschappen KW - 347.78 <09> Auteursrecht--Geschiedenis van ... KW - Computer software piracy KW - Copyright KW - Infringement of copyright KW - Unauthorized reproduction of copyrighted material KW - Infringement of intellectual property KW - Criminal provisions KW - Law and legislation KW - piracies [forgeries] KW - intellectual property KW - Intellectual property KW - Anti-copyright movement KW - History KW - Auteursrecht--Geschiedenis van .. KW - Computercriminaliteit. KW - Copyright infringement. KW - Geschichte. KW - Immaterialgüterrecht KW - Imprimerie KW - Inbreuk. KW - Infractions au droit d'auteur KW - Infractions à la propriété intellectuelle KW - Intellectual property infringement. KW - Intellectueel eigendom. KW - Intrång (upphovsrätt). KW - Logiciels KW - Ongeoorloofde reproductie. KW - Piracy (Copyright). KW - Piratkopiering. KW - Printing. KW - Recht van de intellectuele eigendom. KW - Rechtsverletzung. KW - Software piracy. KW - Software. KW - Softwarekriminalität KW - Urheberrecht KW - Urheberrecht. KW - Histoire. KW - Piratage KW - Auteursrecht--Geschiedenis van . KW - Auteursrecht--Geschiedenis van UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:521457 AB - 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 the author 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. This work 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, this 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. The book swarms throughout with characters of genius, principle, cunning, and outright criminal intent. In the wars over piracy, it is the victims, from Charles Dickens to Bob Dylan, who have always been the best known, but the principal players, the pirates themselves, have long languished in obscurity. It is their stories especially that are brought to life in these pages. From Cervantes to Sonny Bono, from Maria Callas to Microsoft, from Grub Street to Google, no chapter in the story of piracy evades the author's analysis. "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. Written with a historian's flair for narrative and sparkling detail, the book swarms throughout with characters of genius, principle, cunning, and outright criminal intent. In the wars over piracy, it is the victims - from Charles Dickens to Bob Dylan - who have always been the best known, but the principal players - the pirates themselves - have long languished in obscurity, and it is their stories especially that Johns brings to vivid life in these pages."--Jacket. ER -