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A Short History of Copyright

The Genie of Information

Brian Fitzgerald author Benedict Atkinson author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG

Published:8th Nov '13

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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.

ISBN: 9783319020747

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 3554g

142 pages

1st ed. 2014. Corr. 3rd printing 2014