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Friday, 29th January 2010

New Book: Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates

Here's a new title, from the University of Chicago Press, that might be of interest to some of you. It was released this month.

Title: Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates by Adrian Johns

From a Short Review at New Scientist:

You might think that prior to the 20th century, "piracy" only referred to nautical shenanigans. But English stationers in the 17th century labelled colleagues who printed unauthorised versions of other people's work "land-pirats".

Adrian Johns's weighty history fills the years since with quotable anecdotes and lively portraits of wily information thieves who copied everything from telephone network codes to an entire electronics company.

[Snip]

Now, Johns sees Google's move to digitise the world's books and the growing open access movement in science publishing as hints that we are on the brink of an intellectual-property revolution. Plus ça change.

You can find a couple of reviews (PW and Nature) along with a preview of the book (Look Inside the Book) at Amazon.com.

Finally, the U of Chicago Press catalog offers a summary, preview access (via Google), and options to purchase this title as an e-book outright or for 30 or 180 days. You'll also find the table of contents and a sentence or two about the author.

From the University of Chicago Press Catalog Entry:

Brimming with broader implications for today’s debates over open access, fair use, free culture, and the like, Johns’s book ultimately argues that piracy has always stood at the center of our attempts to reconcile creativity and commerce—and that piracy has been an engine of social, technological, and intellectual innovations as often as it has been their adversary.

640 Pages
ISBN: 9780226401188 (Cloth)
ISBN: 9780226401201 (e-Book)


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