Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates

by Adrian Johns

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226401189
• ISBN13: 9780226401188
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.9" x 9.3"