@article{1484638,
      recid = {1484638},
      author = {Carvalho, Julio,},
      title = {A cultural history of copyright : from books to networks  /},
      pages = {1 online resource (x, 148 pages)},
      abstract = {Combining philosophical and historical perspectives, this  book focuses on the rise of a legal institution that has  dominated the economy of knowledge ever since it burst onto  the scene at the dawn of modernity in the heartlands of  Europe. From the age of print to the age of networks and  disruptive technologies, this book explores the place of  copyright amid the various conceptual transformations it  has undergone over time. Uniquely, it presents an in-depth  philosophical treatment of the cultural history of  copyright from its beginnings to the present. Although  copyright is a central topic, the content is by no means  limited to it. The main question the author seeks to answer  is: how do legal institutions emerge and how do they evolve  over time? Though copyright is a wonderful example for  tackling this question, a selection of other institutions,  such as the social practice of promising in  eighteenth-century Britain, are also addressed at  considerable length. What the author has managed to show in  this book is that the transformations which modern law has  undergone since the eighteenth century are inextricably  linked to those which have shaped the modern subject to the  core. Law forms part of those great schemes of  intelligibility that allow us to understand ourselves  better. We need to delve deep into the multiple layers of  culture if we want to fully understand how the morphology  and cultural archaeology of our legal institutions  intertwine.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1484638},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46854-4},
}