Who owns this sentence? : a history of copyrights and wrongs
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Author
Contributors
Montagu, Alexandre, author.
Published
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2024].
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Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
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Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction - NEW | 346.73048 BELLO | Checked Out | April 19, 2024 |
Columbia Pike - Adult Nonfiction - NEW | 346.73048 BELLO | Checked Out | May 10, 2024 |
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Published
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2024].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-371) and index.
Description
"Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of artificial intelligence programs. Not only books but wallpaper, computer programs, pop songs, cartoon characters, snapshots, and cuddly toys are now deemed to be intellectual properties--making copyright a labyrinthine construction of laws with colorful and often baffling rationales covering almost all products of human creativity. It wasn't always so. Copyright has its roots in eighteenth-century London, where it was first established to limit printers' control of books. But a handful of little-noticed changes in the late twentieth century brought about a new enclosure of the cultural commons, concentrating ownership of immaterial goods in very few hands. Copyright's metastasis can't be understood without knowing its backstory, a long tangle of high ideals, low greed, opportunism, and word-mangling that allowed poems and novels (and now, even ringtones and databases) to be treated as if they were no different from farms and houses. Principled arguments against copyright arose from the start and nearly abolished it in the nineteenth century. Nonetheless, countless revisions have made copyright ever stronger"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Bellos, D., & Montagu, A. (2024). Who owns this sentence?: a history of copyrights and wrongs (First edition.). W.W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Bellos, David and Alexandre, Montagu. 2024. Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs. W.W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Bellos, David and Alexandre, Montagu. Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs W.W. Norton & Company, 2024.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Bellos, David,, and Alexandre Montagu. Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs First edition., W.W. Norton & Company, 2024.
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