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Author Johns, Adrian.

Title Piracy [electronic resource] : the intellectual property wars from Gutenberg to Gates / Adrian Johns.

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2009.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 626 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Intellectual property infringement -- History.
Piracy (Copyright) -- History.
Copyright infringement -- History.
Software piracy -- History.
Printing -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780226401188 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226401189 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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