Piracy : the intellectual property wars from Gutenberg to Gates /
"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,...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2009.
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Series: | Ebook Central Academic Complete Collection
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.