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Digital pirates : policing intellectual property in Brazil / Alexander Sebastian Dent.

"Today's intellectual property regime is dysfunctional. The extensive policing of copying does not reduce rates of "piracy," nor does it get producers of music, movies, or medicines paid more or more inclined to innovate. But what new modes of circulation and production have emer...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Dent, Alexander Sebastian (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford : Stanford University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Piracy (Copyright) > Brazil > Prevention.
Piracy (Copyright) > Social aspects > Brazil.
Piracy (Copyright) > Economic aspects > Brazil.
Intellectual property infringement > Brazil.
Video recordings > Pirated editions > Brazil.
Sound recordings > Pirated editions > Brazil.
Intellectual property infringement.
Piracy (Copyright) > Economic aspects.
Sound recordings > Pirated editions.
Video recordings > Pirated editions.
Brazil.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the joys and sorrows of digital textuality
  • "Magical" consumption and the violence of informality
  • The materialities of digital texts
  • Bordering, the Internet, and Paraguayan horses
  • Pre-Papal preparations and cellularity
  • Digital textuality as interruption
  • Conclusion : stationary Indians and corporate raiders.

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