Resource Shelf is reporting on Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates, a new book from the University of Chicago Press. The book can be purchased as an ebook outright, or for 30 or 180 days.
You might think that prior to the 20th century, “piracy” only referred to nautical shenanigans. But English stationers in the 17th century labelled colleagues who printed unauthorised versions of other people’s work “land-pirats”.
