Big Copyright Versus the People
How Major Content Providers Are Destroying Creativity and How to Stop Them
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 7 June 2018
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Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781108401593 |
| ISBN10: | 1108401597 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 286 pages |
| Size: | 228x151x13 mm |
| Weight: | 460 g |
| Language: | English |
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Short description:
Extreme copyright produces extreme consumption: ten hours a day, lost to screens. This book takes back our culture and creativity.
Long description:
When the idea of copyright was enshrined in the Constitution it was intended to induce citizens to create. Today, however, copyright has morphed into a system that offers the bulk of its protection to a select number of major corporate content providers (or Big Copyright), which has turned us from a country of creators into one of consumers who spend, on average, ten hours each day on entertainment. In this alarming but illuminating book, Martin Skladany examines our culture of overconsumption and shows not only how it leads to addiction, but also how it is unraveling important threads - of family, friendship, and community - in our society. Big Copyright versus the People should be read by anyone interested in understanding how Big Copyright managed to get such a lethal grip on our culture and what can be done to loosen it.
'Proceeding from a highly provocative attack on corporate media and its effect on our creative lives, Big Copyright versus the People offers a multitude of wonderfully inventive proposals for reform.' Barton Beebe, New York University School of Law
'Proceeding from a highly provocative attack on corporate media and its effect on our creative lives, Big Copyright versus the People offers a multitude of wonderfully inventive proposals for reform.' Barton Beebe, New York University School of Law
Table of Contents:
Introduction; Part I. Theory: 1. Capture; 2. The overconsumption problem; 3. The value of creativity; Part II. Practical Proposals For Change: 4. Pressuring big copyright; 5. Ignoring big copyright; 6. Cooperating with big copyright; Conclusion; Epilogue.
