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Shamans, software, and spleens : law and the construction of the information society / James Boyle.
1996
N 631 SHA.B
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Title
Shamans, software, and spleens : law and the construction of the information society / James Boyle.
Author
Boyle, James, author.
Item Type
Book
Description
xvi, 270 p. ; 25 cm.
ISBN
0674805224 Print
Alternate Call Number
N 631 SHA.B
Summary
Who owns your genetic information? Might it be the doctors who, in the course of removing your spleen, decode a few cells and turn them into a patented product? In 1990 the Supreme Court of California said yes, marking another milestone on the information superhighway. This extraordinary case is one of the many that James Boyle takes up in Shamans, Software, and Spleens, a timely look at the infinitely tricky problems posed by the information society. Discussing topics ranging from blackmail and insider trading to artificial intelligence (with good-humored stops in microeconomics, intellectual property, and cultural studies along the way), Boyle has produced a work that can fairly be called the first social theory of the information age.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-259) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Preface
1. The Information Society
2. Four Puzzles
3. The Public and Private Realms
4. Information Economics
5. Intellectual Property and the Liberal State
6. Copyright and the Invention of Authorship
7. Blackmail
8. Insider Trading and the Romantic Entrepreneur
9. Spleens
10. Stereotyping Information and Searching for an Author
11. The International Political Economy of Authorship
12. Private Censors, Transgenic Slavery, and Electronic Indenture
13. Proposals and Objections
Conclusion
Appendix A. An Afterword on Method
Appendix B. The Bellagio Declaration
Notes
Acknowledgements
Index
1. The Information Society
2. Four Puzzles
3. The Public and Private Realms
4. Information Economics
5. Intellectual Property and the Liberal State
6. Copyright and the Invention of Authorship
7. Blackmail
8. Insider Trading and the Romantic Entrepreneur
9. Spleens
10. Stereotyping Information and Searching for an Author
11. The International Political Economy of Authorship
12. Private Censors, Transgenic Slavery, and Electronic Indenture
13. Proposals and Objections
Conclusion
Appendix A. An Afterword on Method
Appendix B. The Bellagio Declaration
Notes
Acknowledgements
Index
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996
Language
English
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