| Description |
1 online resource (626 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Summary |
"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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Intellectual property infringement -- History
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Piracy (Copyright) -- History
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Copyright infringement -- History
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Software piracy -- History
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Printing -- History.
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LAW -- Business & Financial.
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LAW -- Intellectual Property -- General.
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Copyright infringement
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Intellectual property infringement
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Piracy (Copyright)
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Printing
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Software piracy
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Urheberrecht
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Rechtsverletzung
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Intellectueel eigendom.
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Ongeoorloofde reproductie.
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Software.
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Computercriminaliteit.
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Recht van de intellectuele eigendom.
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Inbreuk.
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Immaterialgüterrecht -- Geschichte.
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Urheberrecht -- Geschichte.
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Softwarekriminalität -- Geschichte.
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Intrång (upphovsrätt)
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Piratkopiering.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009017513 |
| ISBN |
9780226401201 |
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0226401200 |
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9786612504273 |
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6612504277 |
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