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| published: | Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1996. ©1996. |
| Media Type: | Book, E-Book |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (289 pages) |
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| ISBN: |
9780674028630
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
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| Print version:: | Boyle, James, Shamans, Software, and Spleens, Cambridge : Harvard University Press,c1996 |
| Collection: | E-Books adlr |
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. |