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A Short History of Copyright: The Genie of Information

By Brian Fitzgerald (auth.) , Benedict Atkinson

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Year
2014
ISBN
978-3-319-02074-7, 978-3-319-02075-4
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-02075-4
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
813 kB (832136 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
142\145
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-11-01 17:07:07
Comparative Law; Philosophy of LawIntellectual Property Law; Private International LInternational & Foreign LawInternational IT and Media Law

Description

This book tells the story of how, over centuries, people, society and culture created laws affecting supply of information. In the 21 century, uniform global copyright laws are claimed to be indispensable to the success of entertainment, internet and other information industries. Do copyright laws encourage information flow? Many say that copyright laws limit dissemination, harming society. In the last 300 years, industries armed with copyrights controlled output and distribution. Now the internet’s disruption of economic patterns may radically reshape information regulation. Information freedom, a source of emancipation, may change the world.

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