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 Adrian Johns 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.
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. Brimming with broader implications for today’s debates over open access, fair use, free culture, and the like, Johns’s 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. From Cervantes to Sonny Bono, from Maria Callas to Microsoft, from Grub Street to Google, no chapter in the story of piracy evades Johns’s graceful analysis in what will be the definitive history of the subject for years to come.
Le informazioni nella sezione "Riassunto" possono far riferimento a edizioni diverse di questo titolo.
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 ofThe Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Le informazioni nella sezione "Su questo libro" possono far riferimento a edizioni diverse di questo titolo.
Spese di spedizione:
EUR 3,74
In U.S.A.
Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: new. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service. Codice articolo Holz_New_0226401197
Descrizione libro Condizione: New. Codice articolo 11870215-n
Descrizione libro Condizione: New. Book is in NEW condition. Codice articolo 0226401197-2-1
Descrizione libro Condizione: New. New! This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published. Codice articolo 353-0226401197-new
Descrizione libro paperback. Condizione: New. Language: ENG. Codice articolo 9780226401195
Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: new. New. Codice articolo Wizard0226401197
Descrizione libro Paperback. Condizione: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Codice articolo think0226401197
Descrizione libro Condizione: new. Codice articolo FrontCover0226401197
Descrizione libro Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates 1.85. Book. Codice articolo BBS-9780226401195
Descrizione libro Soft Cover. Condizione: new. This item is printed on demand. Codice articolo 9780226401195