Piracy : the intellectual property wars from Gutenberg to Gates /
Johns, Adrian.
Piracy : the intellectual property wars from Gutenberg to Gates / Adrian Johns. - Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, c2009. - 626 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
9780226401188 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226401189 (cloth : alk. paper)
2009017513
Intellectual property infringement--History.
Piracy (Copyright)--History.
Copyright infringement--History.
Software piracy--History.
Printing--History.
K1401 / .J64 2009
346.04/8
Piracy : the intellectual property wars from Gutenberg to Gates / Adrian Johns. - Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, c2009. - 626 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
9780226401188 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226401189 (cloth : alk. paper)
2009017513
Intellectual property infringement--History.
Piracy (Copyright)--History.
Copyright infringement--History.
Software piracy--History.
Printing--History.
K1401 / .J64 2009
346.04/8