文档介绍：Piracy
Piracy
the intellectual property wars
from gutenberg to gates
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Adrian Johns
the university of chicago press
Chicago and London
adrian johns is professor of history and chair of mittee on
Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science at the University of
Chicago, and the author of The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in
the Making (1998), published by the University of Chicago Press.
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London
© 2009 by Adrian Johns
All rights reserved. Published 2009
Printed in the United States of America
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isbn-13: 978-0-226-40118-8 (cloth)
isbn-10: 0-226-40118-9 (cloth)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Johns, Adrian.
Piracy : the intellectual property wars from Gutenberg to Gates / Adrian
Johns.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn-13: 978-0-226-40118-8 (cloth: alk. paper)
isbn-10: 0-226-40118-9 (cloth: alk. paper)
1. Intellectual property infringement—History. 2. Piracy
(Copyright)—History. 3. Copyright infringement—History.
4. Software piracy—History. 5. Printing—History. I. Title.
2009
'8—dc22 2009017513
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of
the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence
of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI -1992.
For David.
And it is, it is a glorious thing
To be a Pirate King!
Contents
1 A General History of the Pirates 1
2 The Invention of Piracy 17
3 The Piratical Enlightenment 41
4 Experimenting with Print 57
5 Pharmaceutical Piracy and the Origins of Medical Patenting 83
6 Of Epics and Orreries 109
7 The Land without Property 145
8 Making a Nation 179
9 The Printing Counterrevolution 213
10 Inventors, Schemers, and Men of Science 247
11 International Copyright and the Science of Civilization 291
12 The First Pirate Hunters 327
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