The essential guide to intellectual property

Summary: This engaging and accessible study looks at the origins, evolution, purpose, and limitations of intellectual property. Detailing how intellectual property affects industry, politics, cultural expression, and medical research, Aram Sinnreich takes a multidisciplinary approach to uncover what's behind the current debates and what the future holds for copyrights, patents, and trademarks. Based on the notion that intellectual property law is not merely a property right but also a mechanism of cultural and economic regulation with significant consequences for democratic institutions, global businesses, arts, and the sciences, Sinnreich draws on media studies, communications, law, economics, and cultural studies as he provides a blueprint for understanding intellectual property rights and underlines the important and pervasive role that they play in everyone's lives.

Record details

ISBN: 0300214421
ISBN: 9780300214420
Physical Description: print
xiv, 283 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Publisher: New Haven [Connecticut] ; London : Yale University Press, [2019]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-268) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	What is intellectual property? -- The origins of intellectual property -- The limits of intellectual property -- Intellectual property and industry -- Intellectual property and cultural expression -- The politics behind intellectual property -- Intellectual property in the global arena -- Copyright piracy -- Copyleft and copyfight -- The future of intellectual property.