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Piracy (Copyright)

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• Copyright infringement

• Piracy (Copyright) -- Developing countries
• Piracy (Copyright) -- Prevention
• Piracy (Copyright) -- United States
• Books -- Pirated editions
• Software piracy
• Sound recordings -- Pirated editions
• Video recordings -- Pirated editions

• Unauthorized reproduction of copyrighted material

• The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture is Reinventing Capitalism (free download requires name and email (kept private); New York et al.: Free Press, 2008), by Matt Mason (PDF with commentary at thepiratesdilemma.com)
• Film Piracy, Organized Crime, and Terrorism (2009), by Gregory F. Treverton, Carl Matthies, Karla J. Cunningham, Jeremiah Goulka, Greg Ridgeway, and Anny Wong (PDF with commentary at rand.org)
• Shakespeare's Fight With the Pirates and the Problems of the Transmission of His Text (London: A. Moring, 1917), by Alfred W. Pollard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Media Piracy in Emerging Economies (New York: Social Science Research Council, 2011), ed. by Joe Karaganis (PDF with commentary at ssrc.org)
• Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Education (Cambridge, MA and London; et al: MIT Press, 2018), ed. by Joe Karaganis (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• The Piracy Crusade: How the Music Industry's War on Sharing Destroys Markets and Erodes Civil Liberties (Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, c2013), by Aram Sinnreich (PDF with commentary at piracycrusade.com and various other sites)
• The Digital Rights Movement: The Role of Technology in Subverting Digital Copyright (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2012), by Hector Postigo (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Policing Pirates in the Networked Age, by Stan Liebowitz (PDF and partial HTML at cato.org)

• Cheap Book Production in the United States, 1870 to 1891 (masters thesis; Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Library, 1937), by Raymond H. Shove (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare and the Stationers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1955), by Leo Kirschbaum (PDF at Ohio State)

• Geek Mafia (c2006), by Rick Dakan
  • multiple formats at manybooks.net
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Piracy Crusade: How the Music Industry's War on Sharing Destroys Markets and Erodes Civil Liberties (Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, c2013), by Aram Sinnreich (PDF with commentary at piracycrusade.com and various other sites)

• Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion: Rhetoric in the Peer-to-Peer Debates (West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, c2006), by John Logie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Copyright and Home Copying: Technology Challenges the Law (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Film Piracy, Organized Crime, and Terrorism (2009), by Gregory F. Treverton, Carl Matthies, Karla J. Cunningham, Jeremiah Goulka, Greg Ridgeway, and Anny Wong (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Copyright and Home Copying: Technology Challenges the Law (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The True History of Copyright: The Australian Experience, 1905-2005 (Sydney: Sydney University Press, c2007), by Benedict A. C. Atkinson (HTML and PDF with commentary in Australia)

• Copyright for Librarians: The Essential Handbook (Utrecht: EIFL, 2012), by Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society and eIFL.net (multiple formats at eifl.net)

• Policing Pirates in the Networked Age, by Stan Liebowitz (PDF and partial HTML at cato.org)

• Copyright in the Digital Era: Building Evidence for Policy (Washington: National Academies Press, c2013), ed. by Stephen A. Merrill and William J. Raduchel (HTML and PDF at NAP)

• Digital Copyright (Maize Books edition, 2017), by Jessica Litman (HTML with commentary at Maize Books)
• Acquiring Copyright Permission to Digitize and Provide Open Access to Books (2005), by Denise Troll Covey (HTML and PDF with commentary at clir.org)
• Project Looking Forward: Sketching the Future of Copyright in a Networked World (1998), by I. Trotter Hardy (PDF at LOC; 1.3 MB)
• Intellectual Property Rights in an Age of Electronics and Information (Washington: GPO, 1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Copyright in the Digital Era: Building Evidence for Policy (Washington: National Academies Press, c2013), ed. by Stephen A. Merrill and William J. Raduchel (HTML and PDF at NAP)
• The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age (2000), by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (illustrated HTML with commentary at NAP)
• The Section 108 Study Group Report: An Independent Report Sponsored by the United States Copyright Office and the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program of the Library of Congress (2008), by Section 108 Study Group (PDF with commentary at section108.gov)

• Fair Use for Nonfiction Authors: Common Scenarios with Guidance from Community Practice (Berkeley: Authors Alliance, c2017), by Brianna Schofield and Robert Kirk Walker (PDF at authorsalliance.org)
• Copy(write): Intellectual Property in the Writing Classroom (c2011), ed. by Martine Courant Rife, Shaun Slattery, and Dànielle Nicole DeVoss (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
• Documentary Filmmakers' Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use (2005), by Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers, Independent Feature Project, International Documentary Association, National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (U.S.), and Women in Film and Video (Washington DC chapter) (PDF with commentary at centerforsocialmedia.org)
• Will Fair Use Survive? Free Expression in the Age of Copyright Control (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2005), by Marjorie Heins and Tricia Beckles (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)
• Copyright and Home Copying: Technology Challenges the Law (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Owning and Using Scholarship: An IP Handbook for Teachers and Researchers (Chicago: Association of College and Resarch Libraries, 2014), by Kevin L. Smith (PDF at ala.org)
• The Section 108 Study Group Report: An Independent Report Sponsored by the United States Copyright Office and the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program of the Library of Congress (2008), by Section 108 Study Group (PDF with commentary at section108.gov)
• Copyright and Related Issues Relevant to Digital Preservation and Dissemination of Unpublished Pre-1972 Sound Recordings by Libraries and Archives (2009), by June M. Besek (PDF with commentary at clir.org)
• Copyright Issues Relevant to Digital Preservation and Dissemination of Pre-1972 Commercial Sound Recordings by Libraries and Archives (2005), by June M. Besek (HTML and PDF with commentary at clir.org)
• Reproduction of Copyrighted Works by Educators and Librarians (Circular 21), by Library of Congress Copyright Office
  • PDF at loc.gov
  • Gutenberg text

• The Digital Rights Movement: The Role of Technology in Subverting Digital Copyright (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2012), by Hector Postigo (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Digital Opportunity: A Review of Intellectual Property and Growth (with related documents; 2011), by Ian Hargreaves (PDF with commentary in the UK)
• The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World (New York: Random House, c2001), by Lawrence Lessig (PDF with commentary at the-future-of-ideas.com)
• Introducing Copyright: A Plain Language Guide to Copyright in the 21st Century (Vancouver, BC: Commonwealth of Learning, 2009), by Julien Hofman (PDF and Epub with commentary at col.org)

• International Study on the Impact of Copyright Law on Digital Preservation (updated version, September 2008), by National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (U.S.), Joint Information Systems Committee, OAK Law Project, and Stichting SURF (PDF at digitalpreservation.gov)
• Introducing Copyright: A Plain Language Guide to Copyright in the 21st Century (Vancouver, BC: Commonwealth of Learning, 2009), by Julien Hofman (PDF and Epub with commentary at col.org)
• Access to Knowledge for Consumers: Reports of Campaigns and Research, 2008-2010 (Kuala Lumpur: Consumers International, 2010), ed. by Jeremy Malcolm (PDF with commentary at a2knetwork.org)
• Ending Book Hunger: Access to Print Across Barriers of Class and Culture (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2019), by Lea Bishop Shaver (PDF with commentary at bookhunger.org)
• The Digital Rights Movement: The Role of Technology in Subverting Digital Copyright (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2012), by Hector Postigo (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Policing Pirates in the Networked Age, by Stan Liebowitz (PDF and partial HTML at cato.org)

• Who Owns This Text?: Plagiarism, Authorship, and Disciplinary Cultures (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2009), ed. by Carol Peterson Haviland and Joan A. Mullin (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism: Teaching Writing in the Digital Age (2008), ed. by Caroline Eisner and Martha Vicinus (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• Ueber Plagiate: Eine Deuterologie (in Geran; Berlin: K. W. Krüger, 1851), by K. W. Krüger (page images at HathiTrust)

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