Copyfight: The Global Politics of Digital Copyright Reform
Studying copyright, especially if you’re not a lawyer, is akin to stepping into a madhouse where things barely adhere to any internal logic, let alone traditional standards of what makes good public policy. As an economist cum political scientist, I found recent calls for “evidencebased†copyr...
| Main Author: | BLAYNE HAGGART |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Bahasa Inggris |
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University of Toronto Press
2014
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| Online Access: |
http://oaipmh-jogjalib.umy.ac.idkatalog.php?opo=lihatDetilKatalog&id=53025 |
| Summary: |
Studying copyright, especially if you’re not a lawyer, is akin to stepping
into a madhouse where things barely adhere to any internal logic,
let alone traditional standards of what makes good public policy. As an
economist cum political scientist, I found recent calls for “evidencebasedâ€
copyright policy to be a bit stunning: it’s a three-hundred-yearold
policy and only now we’re starting to ask for evidence? That’s the
copyright debate in a nutshell. Copyright and intellectual property
lawmaking often involve the exercise of power and influence justified
in terms of foundational Western concepts like the individual and property.
No wonder Cory Doctorow and others refer to the “copyfight.â€1
It’s politics laid bare |
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| ISBN: |
ebook 600 |