Piracy
Subtitle: the intellectual property wars from Gutenberg to Gates
By: Adrian Johns.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 626
ISBN-13: 9780226401188
Subjects: Intellectual property infringement -- History; Piracy (Copyright) -- History; Copyright infringement -- History; Software piracy -- History; Printing -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A general history of the pirates; title: The invention of piracy; title: The piratical enlightenment; title: Experimenting with print; title: Pharmaceutical piracy and the origins of medical patenting; title: Of epics and orreries; title: The land without property; title: Making a nation; title: The printing counterrevolution; title: Inventors, schemers, and men of science; title: International copyright and the science of civilization; title: The first pirate hunters; title: The great oscillation war; title: Intellectual property and the nature of science; title: The pirate at home and at large; title: From phreaking to fudding; title: Past, present, and future.