Bibliographische Detailangaben
Beteiligte: Boyle, James
veröffentlicht: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1996.
©1996.
Medientyp: Buch, E-Book

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Umfang: 1 online resource (289 pages)
ISBN: 9780674028630
Ausgabe: 1st ed.
Sprache: Englisch
Schlagwörter:
Print version:: Boyle, James, Shamans, Software, and Spleens, Cambridge : Harvard University Press,c1996
Kollektion: E-Books adlr
Inhaltsangabe

James Boyle explores matters as diverse as blackmail; ownership of genetic information; insider trading; Johnny Carson, Bela Lugosi and the Gay Olympics; the doctor as artist and the patient as "public domain"; cyberspace as land; censorship; and robot slavery in this first social theory of the information age.

Intro
Contents
Preface
1 The Information Society
2 Four Puzzles
3 The Public and Private Realms
4 Information Economics
5 Intellectual Property and the Liberal State
6 Copyright and the Invention of Authorship
7 Blackmail
8 Insider Trading and the Romantic Entrepreneur
9 Spleens
10 Stereotyping Information and Searching for an Author
11 The International Political Economy of Authorship
12 Private Censors, Transgenic Slavery, and Electronic Indenture
13 Proposals and Objections
Conclusion
Appendix A. An Afterword on Method
Appendix B. The Bellagio Declaration
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index.