[Commlist] new book: The Essential Guide to Intellectual Property

New book, The Essential Guide to Intellectual 
Property<https://j.mp/sinnIP>, from Yale Press.

Initially, Yale asked me to write a coursebook covering IP — your basic 
overview of copyrights, patents, trademarks, etc. Instead, I wrote kind 
of an anti-coursebook: all the stuff that typically gets left out of the 
story. The book talks about stuff like: how copyright has shaped visual 
culture and musical culture for the past few centuries; how lobbying, 
campaign finance, and dark money shape our IP laws; how international IP 
treaties get used as a kind of “soft power” — often to the detriment of 
“developing nations” in the “global South”; how IP actually gets used in 
the trenches of industries ranging from entertainment to marketing to 
pharmaceuticals to tech; and some of the emerging challenges with the 
law, such as AI authorship and rights to DNA sequences. I also talk 
about a lot of AoIR-related stuff, including the “copyfight,” the open 
source movement, digital culture and “piracy,” and more.

I’d appreciate all the support you can offer for the book — please buy a 
copy, promote it on social media, review it, rate it, critique it, remix 
it, put it on your syllabi and summer reading lists. Even though it’s an 
“academic” subject, I aimed for readability, and I’d say it’s probably 
my most accessible and enjoyable book to date (except for the novel I’m 
currently trying to sell).

You can pick up a copy here, if you’re interested: https://j.mp/sinnIP.


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