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02696aam a2200373 i 4500 001 87620C6EBB4F11EE9799A7D243ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240125010040 008 230608s2024 nyu b 001 0 eng d 010 $a bl2024001114 020 $a 1324073713 020 $a 9781324073710 035 $a (OCoLC)1417286524 040 $a GCmBT $b eng $c GCmBT $e rda $d StDuBDS $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 14 $a KF2994 $b .B45 2024 082 04 $a 346.7304/82 $2 23/eng/20240111 100 1 $a Bellos, David, $e author. 245 10 $a Who owns this sentence? : $b a history of copyrights and wrongs / $c David Bellos, Alexandre Montagu. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b W.W. Norton & Company, $c [2024] 300 $a 288 pages ; $c 23 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-371) and index. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Copyright $z United States $x History. 700 1 $a Montagu, Alexandre, $e author. 941 $a 6 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240619011317.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20240509012651.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240502013602.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20240405024525.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240202021857.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20240125011827.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=87620C6EBB4F11EE9799A7D243ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search