Adrian Johns: Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates

A new (TA-only) book from the U of Chicago Press, January 2010. From the blurb: "Brimming with broader implications for today’s debates over open access, fair use, free culture, and the like, Johns’s book ultimately argues that piracy has always stood at the center of our attempts to reconcile creativity and commerce—and that piracy has been an engine of social, technological, and intellectual innovations as often as it has been their adversary...."