Jessica Reyman

The Rhetoric of Intellectual Property

Copyright Law and the Regulation of Digital Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In recent years we have witnessed a rising tension between the open architecture of the Internet and legal restrictions for online activities. The impact of digital recording technologies and distributed file sharing systems has forever changed the expectations of everyday users with regard to digital information. At the same time, however, U.S. Copyright Law has shown a decided trend toward more restrictions over what we are able to do with digital materials. As a result, a gap has emerged between the reality of copyright law and the social reality of our everyday activities. Through an analysis of the competing rhetorical frameworks about copyright regulation in a digital age, this book shows how the stories told by active parties in the debate shape our cultural understanding of what is and is not acceptable in the use of copyrighted works on digital networks. Reyman posits recent legal developments as sites of conflict between competing value systems in our culture: one of control, relying heavily on comparisons of intellectual property to physical property, and emphasizing ownership, theft, and piracy, and the other a value of community, implementing new concepts such as that of an intellectual "commons," and emphasizing exchange, collaboration, and responsibility to a public good. Reyman argues that the rhetoric of the digital copyright debate, namely the rhetorical positioning of technology as destructive to creative and intellectual production, has profound implications for the future of digital culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 282g
• ISBN-13: 9780415636445
• ISBN-10: 0415636442
• Artikelnr.: 35556367

Autorenporträt

Jessica Reyman is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Writing in the Department of English at Northern Illinois University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments 1: Copyright, Authorship, and
the Internet 2: Rhetoric, Law, and Power in the Copyright Debate 3:
Striking a Balance: Copyright Law and Technological Change 4: Property
Stewardship and the Regulation of Technology 5: Inventing the Commons: The
Cultural Conservancy of Intellectual Property 6: "The Tension Between Two
Values": Technology vs. Intellectual Property in MGM Studios v. Grokster 7:
Copyright on Campus: Shaping Digital Citizens through Anti-Piracy Messages
8: Toward a New Rhetoric of Copyright: Defining the Future of Cultural
Production Appendix A: Researcher as Activist in the Digital Copyright
Debate Appendix B: Copyright Legislation and Court Cases Notes Bibliography
Index