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Against Intellectual Monopoly by Michele BOLDRIN & David K. Levine is a business book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Against Intellectual Monopoly about?

Cover 1 Half-title 3 Title 5 Copyright 6 Contents 7 Acknowledgments 9 ONE Introduction 11 Comments 21 Notes 22 TWO Creation under Competition 25 Software 25 Open-Source Software 27 “Pirating” Software 31 Copyrightables: Books, News,Movies, and Music 32 Fiction and Literature 32 News Reporting 36 The Modern American Newspaper 39 The World Before Copyright 40 How New Is Napster? 41 The Birth of theMovie and of the Recording Industries 43 Encrypted versus Unencrypted Sales 44 Pornography 46 Comments 49 Notes 49 THREE Innovation under Competition 52 World without Patent 53 The Industrial Revolution and the Steam Engine 59 Agriculture 61 Spanish Hortalezas and Italian Maglioni 66 Financial Markets 68 Design 70 Sports 72 Profits without Patents 72 Patent Pools 74 Comments 75 Notes 76 FOUR The Evil of Intellectual Monopoly 79 The Cost of Patent 83 The Patent Thicket 84 Using Patents to Block Competition 88 Seeds, Animals, and Genes 90 Undoing Progress 93 Design 93 Software 94 Submarine Patents 95 The Dilbert Factor 98 Errors in Patenting 101 Comments 102 Notes 103 FIVE The Devil in Disney 108 Everlasting Copyright 109 The Economics ofMusic 116 The Digital Millennium Copyright Act 119 Free

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Author

Michele BOLDRIN & David K. Levine

Language

EN

Category

business

Subjects

Business

Rating

4.09 / 5 (160 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14