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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

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