Piracy : : the Intellectual Property Wars From Gutenberg to Gates
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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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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Year Published: 2009
Description: 626 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780226401188
0226401189
SUBJECTS
Intellectual property infringement -- History.
Piracy (Copyright) -- History.
Copyright infringement -- History.
Software piracy -- History.
Printing -- History.