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 that has been largely forgotten and is little
understood.
"Piracy" explores the intellectual property wars from the advent
of print culture in the fifteenth century to the reign of the
Internet in the twenty-first. Brimming with broader implications
for today's debates over open access, fair use, free culture, and
the like, Johns's book ultimately argues that piracy has always
stood at the center of our attempts to reconcile creativity and
commerce--and that piracy has been an engine of social,
technological, and intellectual innovations as often as it has been
their adversary. From Cervantes to Sonny Bono, from Maria Callas to
Microsoft, from Grub Street to Google, no chapter in the story of
piracy evades Johns's graceful analysis in what will be the
definitive history of the subject for years to come.
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