Media piracy in the cultural economy : intellectual property and labor under neoliberal restructuring

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Media piracy in the cultural economy : intellectual property and labor under neoliberal restructuring

Title remainder

intellectual property and labor under neoliberal restructuring

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Gavin Mueller

Creator

• Mueller, Gavin
• Mueller, Gavin

Subject

• Law and socialism
• Law and socialism
• Piracy (Copyright)
• Piracy (Copyright)
• Copyright infringement
• Copyright infringement

Language

eng

Summary

This book takes a Marxist approach to the study of media piracy - the production, distribution, and consumption of media texts in violation of intellectual property laws - to examine its place as an endemic feature of the cultural economy since the rise of the Internet. The author explores media piracy not in terms of its moral or legal failings, or as the inevitable by-product of digital technologies, but as a symptom of a much larger restructuring of cultural labor in the era of the Internet: labor that is digital, entrepreneurial, informal, and even illegal, and increasingly politicized. Sketching the contours of this new political economy while engaging with theories of digital media, both critical and celebratory, Mueller reveals piracy as a submerged social history of the digital world, and potentially the key to its political reimagining. This significant contribution to the study of piracy and digital culture will be vital reading for scholars and students of critical media studies, cultural studies, political theory, or digital humanities, and particularly those researching media piracy, digital labor, the digital economy, and Marxist theory

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• Routledge focus on digital media and culture

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YDX

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

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bibliography

Series statement

Routledge focus on digital media and culture