Digital prohibition : piracy and authorship in new media art / by Carolyn Guertin.
The act of creation requires us to remix existing cultural content and yet recent sweeping changes to copyright laws have criminalized the creative act as a violation of corporate rights in a commodified world. Copyright was originally designed to protect publishers, not authors, and has now gained...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Continuum International Pub.,
2012.
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| Summary: | The act of creation requires us to remix existing cultural content and yet recent sweeping changes to copyright laws have criminalized the creative act as a violation of corporate rights in a commodified world. Copyright was originally designed to protect publishers, not authors, and has now gained a stranglehold on our ability to transport, read, write, teach and publish digital materials. Contrasting Western models with issues of piracy as practiced in Asia, Digital Prohibition explores the concept of authorship as a capitalist institution and posits the Marxist idea of the multitude (la An. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (305 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441150585 1441150587 9781441166432 1441166432 1628927852 9781628927856 1280577525 9781280577529 9786613607256 6613607258 |