Shamans, Software, and Spleens
Title | Shamans, Software, and Spleens PDF eBook |
Author | James Boyle |
Publisher | |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 1997 |
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Shamans, Software, and Spleens
Title | Shamans, Software, and Spleens PDF eBook |
Author | James BOYLE |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2009-06-30 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0674028635 |
Shamans, Software and Spleens presents a look at the tricky problems posed by the information society. Boyle's book discusses topics ranging from blackmail and insider trading to artificial intelligence, microeconomics and cultural studies.
The Copywrights
Title | The Copywrights PDF eBook |
Author | Paul K. Saint-Amour |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9780801440779 |
They borrow from published works without attribution. They remake literary creation in the image of consumption. They celebrate the art of scissors and paste. Who are these outlaws? Postmodern culture-jammers or file-sharing teens? No, they are the Copywrights--Victorian and modernist writers, among them Oscar Wilde and James Joyce, whose work wrestled with the intellectual property laws of their day.In a highly readable and thought-provoking book that places today's copyright wars in historical context, Paul K. Saint-Amour asks: Would their art have survived the copyright laws of the new millennium? Revisiting major works by Wilde and Joyce as well as centos assembled by anonymous writers from existing poems, Saint-Amour sees the period 1830-1930 as a time when imaginative literature became aware of its own status as intellectual property and began to register that awareness in its subjects, plots, and formal architecture.The authors of these self-reflexive literary texts were more conscious than their precursors of the role played by consumption in both the composition and the consecration of literature. The texts in question became, in turn, part of what Saint-Amour characterizes as a "counterdiscourse" to extensive monopoly copyright, a vocal minority that insisted on a broadly conceived public domain not only as indispensable to free expression and fresh creation but as a good in itself. Recent events such as the court battle over the Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA), which extends copyright terms by 20 years, the patenting of the human genome and of genetically altered seed lines, and high-stakes controversies over literary parody have increased public awareness of intellectual property law.In The Copywrights, Saint-Amour challenges the notion that copyright's function ends with the provision of private incentives to creation and innovation. The cases he examines lead him to argue that copyright performs a range of political, emotional, and even sacred functions that are too often ignored and that what seems to have emerged as copyright's primary function--the creation of private property incentives--must not be an end in itself.
The Intellectual Commons
Title | The Intellectual Commons PDF eBook |
Author | Henry C. Mitchell |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 9780739109489 |
The rapid emergence of digital media has created both new economic opportunities and new risks for authors, publishers, and users in regards to intellectual property. There is a theoretical conflict raging between those who believe "information should be free" and those attempting to protect intellectual property through surveillance and control of access. The Intellectual Commons works to develop a theory of intellectual property that is based on a theory of natural rights that assumes the existence of a "natural world" of intellectual resources. Chett Mitchell develops a moral framework that makes cooperation among the groups involved rather than conflict central to understanding intellectual property rights. Drawing on early modern theorists such as Grotius, Pufendorf, and Locke as well as the intellectual theory of copyright put forth by L. Ray Patterson, Mark Rose, and Michel Foucault, Intellectual Commons presents a way to bring IP theory and practice together. This book is an important addition to the intellectual property debate and a must for law students, communication theorists, and any person interested in the future of digital media rights.
Data Made Flesh
Title | Data Made Flesh PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Mitchell |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2013-02-01 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 1135216665 |
In an age of cloning, cyborgs, and biotechnology, the line between bodies and bytes seems to be disappearing. DataMade Flesh is the first collection to address the increasingly important links between information and embodiment, at a moment when we are routinely tempted, in the words of Donna Haraway, "to be raptured out of the bodies that matter in the lust for information," whether in the rush to complete the Human Genome Project or in the race to clone a human being.
From Goods to a Good Life
Title | From Goods to a Good Life PDF eBook |
Author | Madhavi Sunder |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2012-06-26 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 030014671X |
A law professor draws from social and cultural theory to defend her idea that that intellectual property law affects the ability of citizens to live a good life and prohibits people from making and sharing culture.
Laws of Creation
Title | Laws of Creation PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald A. Cass |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2013-01-01 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0674067649 |
Cass and Hylton explain how technological advances strengthen the case for intellectual property laws, and argue convincingly that IP laws help create a wealthier, more successful, more innovative society than alternative legal systems. Ignoring the social value of IP rights and making what others create “free” would be a costly mistake indeed.