Metaphors, moral panics, folk devils, Jack Valenti, Joseph Schumpeter, John Maynard Keynes, predictable irrationality, and free market fundamentalism are a few of the topics covered in this lively, unflinching examination of the 'Copyright Wars': the pitched battles over new tec…
"This book draws on a wide selection of interdisciplinary literature discussing complex adaptive systems--including scholarship from economics, political science, evolutionary biology, cognitive science, and religion--to apply general complexity tenets to the institutions, conce…
This book draws on a wide selection of interdisciplinary literature discussing complex adaptive systems, to apply general complexity tenets to the institutions, conceptual framework, and theoretical justifications of the copyright system, both in the United States and internatio…
La 4ème de couv. indique : "As a central part of the regulation of contemporary economies, intellectual property is central to all aspects of our lives. It matters for the works we create, the brands we prefer and the medicines we consume. But if IP is power, what kind of power …