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Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates

Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates Media History, 2014 Vol. 20, No. 4, 445–462, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2014.949430 ROUNDTABLE Adrian Johns, 2011 Chicago, The University of Chicago Press 640 pp., ISBN 9780226401188 (cloth $38.00), 9780226401195 (pbk $22.50), (Ebook $7.00–18.00) Martin Conboy At a recent AHRC-sponsored seminar at the University of Cardiff, a representative from Cengage Learning, the international publisher of digital newspaper archives, began his presentation with an image of a certain ‘Captain Avery’ from the end of the seventeenth century. The story went that this character loomed large in the representa- tive’s family history, a family steeped in an entirely honorable naval tradition. Seth Caley recounted how he had been drawn to considering the man behind the image and had undertaken a brief, if illuminating, exploration of this family legend. The first hit in the digital archive on Captain Avery was followed by the words which can still, in this twenty- first century, be guaranteed to send a shiver down the spine and chill the blood: Captain Avery—The Pirate! Seth recovered and so, on reading this book, piracy itself has been rehabilitated on account of the ways in which Adrian Johns demonstrates the productive and dynamic energies implicit in its changing practices. As befits the exploration of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Media History Taylor & Francis

Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates

Conboy, Martin
Media History , Volume 20 (4): 4 – Oct 2, 2014
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Media History, 2014 Vol. 20, No. 4, 445–462, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2014.949430 ROUNDTABLE Adrian Johns, 2011 Chicago, The University of Chicago Press 640 pp., ISBN 9780226401188 (cloth $38.00), 9780226401195 (pbk $22.50), (Ebook $7.00–18.00) Martin Conboy At a recent AHRC-sponsored seminar at the University of Cardiff, a representative from Cengage Learning, the international publisher of digital newspaper archives, began his presentation with an image of a certain ‘Captain Avery’ from the end of the seventeenth century. The story went that this character loomed large in the representa- tive’s family history, a family steeped in an entirely honorable naval tradition. Seth Caley recounted how he had been drawn to considering the man behind the image and had undertaken a brief, if illuminating, exploration of this family legend. The first hit in the digital archive on Captain Avery was followed by the words which can still, in this twenty- first century, be guaranteed to send a shiver down the spine and chill the blood: Captain Avery—The Pirate! Seth recovered and so, on reading this book, piracy itself has been rehabilitated on account of the ways in which Adrian Johns demonstrates the productive and dynamic energies implicit in its changing practices. As befits the exploration of

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