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Piracy : the intellectual property wars from Gutenberg to Gates / Adrian Johns.

By: Johns, Adrian.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, c2009Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: 626 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780226401188 (cloth : alk. paper); 0226401189 (cloth : alk. paper).Subject(s): Intellectual property infringement -- History | Piracy (Copyright) -- History | Copyright infringement -- History | Software piracy -- History | Printing -- HistoryDDC classification: 346.04/8
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.
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Two Weeks Davenport Library Circulating Collection Print-Circulating 346.048 J62 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34284003709847

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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