Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars

by William Patry

Metaphors, moral panics, folk devils, Jack Valenti, Joseph Schumpeter, John Maynard Keynes, predictable irrationality, and free market fundamentalism are a few of the topics covered in this lively, unflinching examination of the Copyright Wars: the pitched battles over new technology, business models, and most of all, consumers.
In Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars, William Patry lays bare how we got to where we are: a bloated, punitive legal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195385640
• ISBN13: 9780195385649
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"