Adrian Johns's Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to PDF

By Adrian Johns

ISBN-10: 0226401197

ISBN-13: 9780226401195

Because the upward push of Napster and different file-sharing companies in its wake, so much folks have assumed that highbrow piracy is a fabricated from the electronic age and that it threatens inventive expression as by no means earlier than. The movie organization of the USA, for example, claimed that during 2005 the movie misplaced $2.3 billion in profit to piracy on-line. yet right here Adrian Johns exhibits that piracy has a miles longer and extra very important heritage than we've got realized—one that has been mostly forgotten and is little understood.

Piracy explores the highbrow estate wars from the arrival of print tradition within the 15th century to the reign of the web within the twenty-first. Brimming with broader implications for today’s debates over open entry, reasonable use, loose tradition, and so on, Johns’s e-book eventually argues that piracy has consistently stood on the middle of our makes an attempt to reconcile creativity and commerce—and that piracy has been an engine of social, technological, and highbrow concepts as usually because it has been their adversary. From Cervantes to Sonny Bono, from Maria Callas to Microsoft, from Grub road to Google, no bankruptcy within the tale of piracy evades Johns’s sleek research in what is going to be the definitive background of the topic for future years.

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Uk. 1998. 16 - L’appello viene ripreso l’11 febbraio anche da Tempo Medico sotto forma di Manifesto per l’informazione, come riportato in Davide Rossi, La salute informata, Luigi Pellegrini Editore, Cosenza, 1999, p. 15. 41 42 Sanità e Web 17 - Bollettino della Società Filosofica Italiana, n. 171, 2000, pp. 32-51. org. html. 20 - Francesca Baldi e Alberto Mantovani, Comunicare i rischi a lungo termine: una riflessione, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma, 2001. 21 - La più celebre della trasmissioni televisive sulla salute, Check-up, nasce il 17 dicembre del 1977.

Nell’appello si leggeva: “Il caso Di Bella ha mostrato che l’analfabetismo scientifico in Italia ha raggiunto livelli di guardia. ] La scarsità di buona informazione scientifica ha lasciato spazio a nicchie che vengono prontamente occupate dalla pseudoscienza, dalla superstizione, dall’irrazionalità. ] All’informazione si deve chiedere equilibrio, competenza, completezza, spirito di obiettività, specialmente quando essa tocca un argomento come il cancro, uno degli incubi della società moderna”.

In pratica: riusciamo a incarnare i dati Censis nel quotidiano del vissuto professionale? Qui ci viene in aiuto l’Ordine dei medici di una delle più grandi, significative e complesse città italiane, Napoli. Napoli, una ricerca sulla popolazione medica Nel periodo luglio 2010-febbraio 2011 l’Ordine dei medici di Napoli ha effettuato all’interno dei propri iscritti una ricerca volta a individuare i comportamenti e a raccogliere i giudizi qualitativi dei medici sul web. it e attraverso un sondaggio telefonico.

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