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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...

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Main Author: BLAYNE HAGGART
Format: eBook
Language: Bahasa Inggris
Published: University of Toronto Press 2014
Subjects:
Copyright and electronic data processing,Copyright – Electronic information resources – North America, Internet – Law and legislation
Online Access: http://library.umy.ac.id/katalog.php?opo=lihatDetilKatalog&id=53025
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spelling umylibrary-530252019-06-14T08:51:56ZCopyfight: The Global Politics of Digital Copyright ReformBLAYNE HAGGARTCopyright and electronic data processing,Copyright – Electronic information resources – North America, Internet – Law and legislationStudying 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” 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.”1 It’s politics laid bareUniversity of Toronto Press2014eBookebook 600Bahasa Inggrishttp://library.umy.ac.id/katalog.php?opo=lihatDetilKatalog&id=53025
institution Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta
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language Bahasa Inggris
topic Copyright and electronic data processing,Copyright – Electronic information resources – North America, Internet – Law and legislation
spellingShingle Copyright and electronic data processing,Copyright – Electronic information resources – North America, Internet – Law and legislation
BLAYNE HAGGART
Copyfight: The Global Politics of Digital Copyright Reform
description 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” 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.”1 It’s politics laid bare
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title Copyfight: The Global Politics of Digital Copyright Reform
title_short Copyfight: The Global Politics of Digital Copyright Reform
title_full Copyfight: The Global Politics of Digital Copyright Reform
title_fullStr Copyfight: The Global Politics of Digital Copyright Reform
title_full_unstemmed Copyfight: The Global Politics of Digital Copyright Reform
title_sort copyfight: the global politics of digital copyright reform
publisher University of Toronto Press
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