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Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity

by Siva Vaidhyanathan

This is a 2001 book on the history and abuses of copyright law in the 20th century. When the author was at NYU, he made prepublication files of the book available online from his home page. The author has since left NYU, and his home page is gone, but the files for the book are still available online at NYU. The PDF files for each chapter are linked below.

• Front matter and introduction
• Chapter 1: Copyright and American Culture: Ideas, Expressions, and Democracy
• Chapter 2: Mark Twain and the History of Literary Copyright
• Chapter 3: Celluloid Copyright and Derivative Works, or, How to Stop 12 Monkeys with One Chair
• Chapter 4: Hep Cats and Copy Cats: American Music Challenges the Copyright Tradition
• Chapter 5: The Digital Moment: The End of Copyright?
• Epilogue: The Summer Without Martha Graham
• End notes

The author currently blogs at Sivacracy.net. That site includes a link to purchase this book in print form from Amazon.

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