PIRACY: A Free eBook (Today Only)

A quick fyi on a free eBook from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Chica­go. (It’s an offer that seems well timed, giv­en this week­end’s copy­right debate on OC.) Here are the details from UC:

Offered as a free e‑book for one day only, Feb­ru­ary 1: Pira­cy: The Intel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty Wars from Guten­berg to Gates. “[Adri­an Johns] traces the ten­sions between autho­rized and unau­tho­rized pro­duc­ers and dis­trib­u­tors of books, music, and oth­er intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty in British and Amer­i­can cul­ture from the 17th cen­tu­ry to the present.… The shift­ing the­o­ret­i­cal argu­ments about copy­right and autho­r­i­al prop­er­ty are pre­sent­ed in a cogent and acces­si­ble man­ner. Johns’s research stands as an impor­tant reminder that today’s intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty crises are not unprece­dent­ed, and offers a sur­vey of poten­tial approach­es to a solu­tion.”

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