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Wtrettien: /* Past, Present, and Future */

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Past, Present, and Future

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	== Past, Present, and Future ==		== Past, Present, and Future ==

			:"In intellectual property, as in the disciplines at large, a reengagement with history is likely to play a central role in shaping the transformation that such a crisis entails. Indeed, this book has shown how revisions of history have already proved a notable feature of all major transitions in intellectual property thus far, from the invention of piracy through that of intellectual property. New accounts of the digital and biotech -- along with revisionist interpretations of the Gutenberg revolution -- herald another. '''Rather than adducing a discrete 'culture' defined by each given technology, they portray a practical, dynamic, and continuous interlacing of technologies and society.''' They furnish a kind of understanding that could underpin a revision of the proper relation between creativity and commerce." (517)

Wtrettien: /* Intellectual Property and the Nature of Science */

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Intellectual Property and the Nature of Science

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	:"As a result, the answer to the question of the experimenter turned out to be at once the simplest and most complex of all. There was ''no way'' to tell who was or was not an experimenter, nor to count how many there were. Or, to put it another way, ''everyone'' was an experimenter, at least potentially. In that case, radio took on a different role. It might be the trigger that could turn potential into actuality, taking dormant talents and enticing them into use." (380)		:"As a result, the answer to the question of the experimenter turned out to be at once the simplest and most complex of all. There was ''no way'' to tell who was or was not an experimenter, nor to count how many there were. Or, to put it another way, ''everyone'' was an experimenter, at least potentially. In that case, radio took on a different role. It might be the trigger that could turn potential into actuality, taking dormant talents and enticing them into use." (380)

	== Intellectual Property and the Nature of Science ==		== Intellectual Property and the Nature of Science ==

			cybernetics, information systems; Wiener's account of thinkers vs. makers (425)

			:"Contrary to popular belief, there was in fact no quantum leap in scientific patenting in the 1980s. In the 1930s, some research institutions sought patents just as avidly as the likes of MIT and UCSD do now. ... it is not so much that pure science never existed, as that the idea that it ''could'' exist is one we owe to debates about intellectual property and piracy." (430)

	== The Pirate at Home and at Large ==		== The Pirate at Home and at Large ==

Wtrettien: /* The Great Oscillation War */

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The Great Oscillation War

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	== The First Pirate Hunters ==		== The First Pirate Hunters ==

	== The Great Oscillation War ==		== The Great Oscillation War ==

			problem of figuring out who could be licensed as an "experimenter" in early radio

			:"As a result, the answer to the question of the experimenter turned out to be at once the simplest and most complex of all. There was ''no way'' to tell who was or was not an experimenter, nor to count how many there were. Or, to put it another way, ''everyone'' was an experimenter, at least potentially. In that case, radio took on a different role. It might be the trigger that could turn potential into actuality, taking dormant talents and enticing them into use." (380)

	== Intellectual Property and the Nature of Science ==		== Intellectual Property and the Nature of Science ==

Wtrettien: /* International Copyright and the Science of Civilization */

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International Copyright and the Science of Civilization

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	== International Copyright and the Science of Civilization ==		== International Copyright and the Science of Civilization ==

			Henry Carey
			*"electrical force in motion therefore became his archetype for societary circulation" (315)
			*"Having honed his skills in long years spent as a reader for his father's publishing house, he co-opted a way of reading that in private he called his "'copy-book' plan." This "plan" was in essence a version of the commonplacing used by earlier generations of scholars to cope with the daunting flow of books produced by printing. Commonplaces constituted Carey's version of scientific "observations." For marx this was his fatal flaw: he lambasted Carey for an "uncritical and superficial" shuffling of numbers, for "spurious erudition," and for an "atrocious lack of the critical faculty." But what to Marx was a maddening wewakness was for others an impressive empiricism, much needed in the arid field of political economy." (319)

			see Carey's diagram of America, pg 321 -- notes the labor that goes into making books

	== The First Pirate Hunters ==		== The First Pirate Hunters ==

Wtrettien: /* Inventors, Schemers, and Men of Science */

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Inventors, Schemers, and Men of Science

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	== Inventors, Schemers, and Men of Science ==		== Inventors, Schemers, and Men of Science ==

			"projectors" --> "inventors"
			"natural philosophers" --> "scientists"

	== International Copyright and the Science of Civilization ==		== International Copyright and the Science of Civilization ==

Wtrettien: /* The Printer Counterrevolution */

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The Printer Counterrevolution

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	== Making a Nation ==		== Making a Nation ==

	== The ~~Printer~~ Counterrevolution ==		== The Printing Counterrevolution ==

			'''history of deposit libraries'''

			:"the linking of deposit with copyright threatened to turn the uniersity libraries into repositories not of learned and significant scholarship, but of the piratable. Attractiveness to pirates seemed to be the de facto axiom of Enlightenment archiving." (218)

			:"Since the seventeenth century ''bibliographia'' had come to mean the knowledge of books, by analogy to ''geographia''. Such knowledge typically took one of two forms. One was discursive, embracing the state of a particular branch of learning; the other, which proved more lasting, was taxonomic, addressing hte classification and knowledge of books qua books. It centered on lists, called ''bibliothecae'' (libraries), which had multiplied after the invention of printing. the question they posed was how to organize, classify, and represent the world of printed knowledge. Answering it called for a new science. This science developed alongside those for classifying the natural world. Linnaeus -- and Gesner before him -- produced both. By Brydges's day the dream of a single universal reference source had long proved unrealizable, however. Even bibliographies of bibliographies were obsolete before they could see print. In response, bibliography came to mean a classificatory science not so much of knowledge as of the book: of typography, binding, and paper. this shift was partly a response to the upheavals of the French Revolution, which resulted in the dispersal of many collections and therefore a need to specify the details of particular volumes closely and systematically. Out of two revolutions -- the printing revolution and the French Revolution -- thus came a new, systematic science of the book." (231)

			''Flora Graeca'', by John Sibthorp; mammoth project in Latin taking 34 yrs and 10 volumes; only ran in about 30 copies; 1825, British Museum sues for its free deposit copies, which would have been almost impossible to produce at that point; BM lost, because courts "determined that such a bijou publication was not a ''book'' at all"

	== Inventors, Schemers, and Men of Science ==		== Inventors, Schemers, and Men of Science ==

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	== Of Epics and Orreries ==		== Of Epics and Orreries ==

			== The Land without Property ==

			== Making a Nation ==

			== The Printer Counterrevolution ==

			== Inventors, Schemers, and Men of Science ==

			== International Copyright and the Science of Civilization ==

			== The First Pirate Hunters ==

			== The Great Oscillation War ==

			== Intellectual Property and the Nature of Science ==

			== The Pirate at Home and at Large ==

			== From Phreaking to Fudding ==

			== Past, Present, and Future ==

Wtrettien: /* Pharmaceutical Piracy and the Origins of Medical Patenting */

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Pharmaceutical Piracy and the Origins of Medical Patenting

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	:"Another problem, even harder to deal with, was unauthorized ''reading'', of the kind Grew's treatise on salt would get from lay patients. The impression of authority that pharmacopoeias conveyed would encourage readers to miss the actual variability of substances." (101)		:"Another problem, even harder to deal with, was unauthorized ''reading'', of the kind Grew's treatise on salt would get from lay patients. The impression of authority that pharmacopoeias conveyed would encourage readers to miss the actual variability of substances." (101)

			== Of Epics and Orreries ==

Wtrettien: /* Pharmaceutical Piracy and the Origins of Medical Patenting */

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Pharmaceutical Piracy and the Origins of Medical Patenting

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	Moults claimed Grew had plagiarized Malpighi -- even gone to Padua in person and stolen Malpighi's work sheet by sheet as it came off the press (92); "how to decide which, if either, of the English books was authentic? Neither was quite the original, after all. If Grew had absconded with knowledge from Malpighi's printing house, moreover, was the original ''Anatomy of Plants'' his book?" (92)		Moults claimed Grew had plagiarized Malpighi -- even gone to Padua in person and stolen Malpighi's work sheet by sheet as it came off the press (92); "how to decide which, if either, of the English books was authentic? Neither was quite the original, after all. If Grew had absconded with knowledge from Malpighi's printing house, moreover, was the original ''Anatomy of Plants'' his book?" (92)

			:"Ultimately, the patent was a device to secure trust at a distance. Empires could be built on it." (96)

			:"At the advent of medical patenting, then, not only did patenting itself emerge as a tactic -- as a challenge to counterfeits, not something challenged by them -- but the counterfeits also won out. Claims of strong authorship in medicaments did not prevail, despite the endorsements of the Royal Society and the College of Physicians." (97)

			"trusting people and trusting things" was what was at stake (99)

			:"Another problem, even harder to deal with, was unauthorized ''reading'', of the kind Grew's treatise on salt would get from lay patients. The impression of authority that pharmacopoeias conveyed would encourage readers to miss the actual variability of substances." (101)

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			== A General History of the Pirates ==

			issues of piracy reach "to the defining elements of modern culture tiself: to science and technology; to authorship, authenticity, and credibility; to policing and politics; to the premises on which economic activity and social order rest" (3)

			:"What is at stake, in the end, is the nature of the relationship we want to uphold between creativity, communication, and commerce." (5)

			:"Telling the authorized and authentic from the unauthorized and spurious was only one necessary art for thriving in the world of print, but necessary it was. Being a good reader demanded this kind of critical expertise. Writ large, the possibility that print itself might uphold some kind of rational public depended on it, too." (9)

	== The Invention of Piracy ==		== The Invention of Piracy ==