Copyright, time and locking of knowledge: when to create through imitation was not to claim ownership of ideas - Couverture souple
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For centuries, the same promise has been repeated: that copyright protects creativity, incentivizes innovation, and ensures the survival of those who create. This book argues that this promise has been reversed. That the system no longer supports creation, but constrains it; no longer enables knowledge to circulate, but locks it in place; no longer protects people, but freezes ideas.
Copyright, Time, and the Locking of Knowledge is neither a defense nor an ideological attack on copyright. It is an analysis of design. It examines what the system actually does when applied to the contemporary world: how it forces creators to work around it in order to create at all, how time has become a residue without function, how ideas are treated as goods, and how the cost of these distortions is shifted onto those with the least capacity to absorb it.
Drawing from technical, cultural, and social examples, the book dismantles assumptions that have become invisible: that copying is equivalent to theft, that innovation requires long-term exclusivity, that protecting ideas is the only way to pay the people who create them. In their place, it proposes a different question—not how to strengthen control, but how to sustain creation without damaging the cultural ecosystem on which it depends.
This is not a book of fixed solutions or universal prescriptions. It is an invitation to rethink the framework itself. To treat time as a tool rather than a dogma. To pay people without immobilizing knowledge. To recognize that culture is a living process—and that any system which must be constantly bypassed in order to function cannot continue to serve as its foundation.
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Copyright, time and locking of knowledge: when to create through imitation was not to claim ownership of ideas
Edité par
Diego López Ortiz, 2026
ISBN 10 : 8409824671
ISBN 13 : 9788409824670
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. For centuries, the same promise has been repeated: that copyright protects creativity, incentivizes innovation, and ensures the survival of those who create. This book argues that this promise has been reversed. That the system no longer supports creation, but constrains it; no longer enables knowledge to circulate, but locks it in place; no longer protects people, but freezes ideas. Copyright, Time, and the Locking of Knowledge is neither a defense nor an ideological attack on copyright. It is an analysis of design. It examines what the system actually does when applied to the contemporary world: how it forces creators to work around it in order to create at all, how time has become a residue without function, how ideas are treated as goods, and how the cost of these distortions is shifted onto those with the least capacity to absorb it. Drawing from technical, cultural, and social examples, the book dismantles assumptions that have become invisible: that copying is equivalent to theft, that innovation requires long-term exclusivity, that protecting ideas is the only way to pay the people who create them. In their place, it proposes a different question-not how to strengthen control, but how to sustain creation without damaging the cultural ecosystem on which it depends. This is not a book of fixed solutions or universal prescriptions. It is an invitation to rethink the framework itself. To treat time as a tool rather than a dogma. To pay people without immobilizing knowledge. To recognize that culture is a living process-and that any system which must be constantly bypassed in order to function cannot continue to serve as its foundation. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9788409824670
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. For centuries, the same promise has been repeated: that copyright protects creativity, incentivizes innovation, and ensures the survival of those who create. This book argues that this promise has been reversed. That the system no longer supports creation, but constrains it; no longer enables knowledge to circulate, but locks it in place; no longer protects people, but freezes ideas. Copyright, Time, and the Locking of Knowledge is neither a defense nor an ideological attack on copyright. It is an analysis of design. It examines what the system actually does when applied to the contemporary world: how it forces creators to work around it in order to create at all, how time has become a residue without function, how ideas are treated as goods, and how the cost of these distortions is shifted onto those with the least capacity to absorb it. Drawing from technical, cultural, and social examples, the book dismantles assumptions that have become invisible: that copying is equivalent to theft, that innovation requires long-term exclusivity, that protecting ideas is the only way to pay the people who create them. In their place, it proposes a different question-not how to strengthen control, but how to sustain creation without damaging the cultural ecosystem on which it depends. This is not a book of fixed solutions or universal prescriptions. It is an invitation to rethink the framework itself. To treat time as a tool rather than a dogma. To pay people without immobilizing knowledge. To recognize that culture is a living process-and that any system which must be constantly bypassed in order to function cannot continue to serve as its foundation. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9788409824670
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