Terms of Use

Negotiating the Jungle of the Intellectual Commons

Eva Hemmungs Wirtén (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2008
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-0-8020-9046-1 (ISBN)

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As a result of the digital revolution and the ever-increasing use of the internet, discussions around the conflict between copyright and the public domain are more prevalent than ever before. While these discussions have been hotly debated by legal scholars and in blogs and online forums, Terms of Use is one of the first books to concentrate on the conceptual foundations of the public domain. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Eva Hemmungs Wirten reveals the nineteenth-century origins of contemporary phenomena such as blogs, wikis, the "Creative Commons," as well as the "Open Source" and "Open Access" movements. Hemmungs Wirten examines topics as diverse as the pharmaceutical uses of plants, the patenting of DNA sequences, and Disney's reworking of Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Books in order to provide a frank theoretical discussion of how nature and culture have been transformed into intellectual property. Timely and provocative, Terms of Use will challenge and inspire readers by providing an original and innovative approach to the understanding of the public domain and its origins.

Eva Hemmungs Wirten is an associate professor in the Department of Archival Science, Library and Information Science, and Museology at Uppsala University.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.9.2008
Verlagsort	Toronto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 236 mm
Gewicht	480 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Urheberrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-8020-9046-X / 080209046X
ISBN-13	978-0-8020-9046-1 / 9780802090461
Zustand	Neuware