6 Copyright and the Invention of Authorship

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. 1 The Information Society 1
5. 2 Four Puzzles 17
6. 3 The Public and Private Realms 25
7. 4 Information Economics 35
8. 5 Intellectual Property and the Liberal State 47
9. 6 Copyright and the Invention of Authorship 51
10. 7 Blackmail 61
11. 8 Insider Trading and the Romantic Entrepreneur 81
12. 9 Spleens 97
13. 10 Stereotyping Information and Searching for an Author 108
14. 11 The International Political Economy of Authorship 119
15. 12 Private Censors, Transgenic Slavery, and Electronic Indenture 144
16. 13 Proposals and Objections 155
17. Conclusion 174
18. Appendix A. An Afterword on Method 187
19. Appendix B. The Bellagio Declaration 192
20. Notes 201
21. Acknowledgments 261
22. Index 263