Adrian Johns: Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates (2009)
Filed under book | Tags: · copyright, intellectual property, piracy
Since the rise of Napster and other file sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. The Motion Picture Association of America, for instance, claimed that in 2005 the film industry lost $2.3 billion in revenue to piracy online. But here Adrian Johns shows that piracy has a much longer and more vital history than we have realized—one that has been largely forgotten and is little understood.
Piracy explores the intellectual property wars from the advent of print culture in the fifteenth century to the reign of the Internet in the twenty-first. Written with a historian’s flair for narrative and sparkling detail, the book swarms throughout with characters of genius, principle, cunning, and outright criminal intent: in the wars over piracy, it is the victims—from Charles Dickens to Bob Dylan—who have always been the best known, but the principal players—the pirates themselves—have long languished in obscurity, and it is their stories especially that Johns brings to life in these vivid pages.
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. From Cervantes to Sonny Bono, from Maria Callas to Microsoft, from Grub Street to Google, no chapter in the story of piracy evades Johns’s graceful analysis in what will be the definitive history of the subject for years to come.
Publisher University of Chicago Press, 2009
ISBN 978-0-226-40118-8, 0-226-40118-9
626 pages
PDF (updated on 2012-7-15)
Comment (0)Artur-Axel Wandtke (ed.): Medienrecht: Praxishandbuch (2008) [German]
Filed under book | Tags: · copyright, intellectual property, law, media
Dem “Medienrecht” als Gestaltungsmittel in den Informations- und Kommunikationsprozessen kommt in der praktischen Unternehmenskultur und in der Rechtsdurchsetzung eine immer größer werdende Bedeutung zu. Wirtschaftlich gewinnen die rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen der Informations- und Kommunikationsprozesse in der geistigen Produktion und deren Verwertungsbedingungen immer mehr an Gewicht. Werbemaßnahmen, Merchandising, Public Relations, kommerzialisierte Persönlichkeitsrechte, Telemedien, Online-Nutzung, Presseprodukte, Film- und Fernsehwerke und andere Erscheinungsformen stehen stellvertretend für eine Individual- und Massenkommunikation, die im herkömmlichen und virtuellen Markt eine entscheidende Rolle spielen.
Mit diesem Handbuch wird auf wissenschaftlicher Grundlage eine Gesamtdarstellung vor allem der privatrechtlichen Medienprozesse vorgelegt, die im Zusammenhang mit der Produktion und Vermarktung bzw. Nutzung von Zeichen, Bildern, Tönen und anderen Informationen (Medienprodukten) entstehen. Dabei werden auch die europarechtlichen Aspekte der Entwicklung des Medienrechts dargestellt.
Publisher Walter de Gruyter, 2008
ISBN 3899494229, 9783899494228
Length 1932 pages
Robert Hassan, Julian Thomas (eds.): The New Media Theory Reader (2006)
Filed under book | Tags: · free software, hacking, information society, information technology, intellectual property, interactivity, media theory, new media, public broadcasting, software, theory
The study of new media opens up some of the most fascinating issues in contemporary culture: questions of ownership and control over information and cultural goods; the changing experience of space and time; the political consequences of new communication technologies; and the power of users and consumers to disrupt established economic and business models.
The New Media Theory Reader brings together key readings on new media ndash; what it is, where it came from, how it affects our lives, and how it is managed. Using work from media studies, cultural history and cultural studies, economics, law, and politics, the essays encourage readers to pay close attention to the ‘new’ in new media, as well as considering it as a historical phenomenon. The Reader features a general introduction as well as an editors’ introduction to each thematic section, and a useful summary of each reading.
The New Media Theory Reader is an indispensable text for students on new media, technology, sociology and media studies courses.
Essays by: Andrew Barry, Benjamin R Barber, James Boyle, James Carey, Benjamin Compaine, Noam Cook, Andrew Graham, Nicola Green, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Ian Hunter, Kevin Kelly, Heejin Lee, Lawrence Lessig, Jonathan Liebenau, Jessica Litman, Lev Manovich, Michael Marien Robert W. McChesney David E. Nye, Bruce M Owen Lyman Ray Patterson, Kevin Robins, Ithiel de Sola Pool, David Saunders, Richard Stallman, Cass R. Sunstein, Jeremy Stein, McKenzie Wark, Frank Webster, Dugald Williamson.
Publisher Open University Press, McGraw-Hill International, 2006
ISBN 0335217109, 9780335217106
326 pages
PDF (updated on 2012-12-5)
Comments (3)