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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Bellos, David, author.     Subjects     Copyright -- United States -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Bellos, David, author.       by title:      Who owns this senten...         MARC Display

Who owns this sentence? : a history of copyrights and wrongs / David Bellos, Alexandre Montagu. by Bellos, David, author. New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2024] Subjects Copyright -- United States -- History. ISBN:  9781324073710 (hbk.) : 1324073713 (hbk.) Description:  384 pages ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  1 Summary:  "Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of artificial intelligence programs. Not only books but wallpaper, computer programs, pop songs, cartoon characters, snapshots, and cuddly toys are now deemed to be intellectual properties--making copyright a labyrinthine construction of laws with colorful and often baffling rationales covering almost all products of human creativity. It wasn't always so. Copyright has its roots in eighteenth-century London, where it was first established to limit printers' control of books. But a handful of little-noticed changes in the late twentieth century brought about a new enclosure of the cultural commons, concentrating ownership of immaterial goods in very few hands. Copyright's metastasis can't be understood without knowing its backstory, a long tangle of high ideals, low greed, opportunism, and word-mangling that allowed poems and novels (and now, even ringtones and databases) to be treated as if they were no different from farms and houses. Principled arguments against copyright arose from the start and nearly abolished it in the nineteenth century. Nonetheless, countless revisions have made copyright ever stronger"--Provided by publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Aina Haina Public Library Adult New Books 346.0482 Be Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 346.0482 Be Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 346.0482 Be Checked out 06/28/2024 Add Copy to MyList Naalehu Public Library Adult Nonfiction 346.0482 Be Item being held   Add Copy to MyList

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