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West, Matthew Ellis. ; Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006. ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 250-260). ; Abstracts in English and Chinese. ; Abstract (in English and Chinese) --- p.ii ; Acknowledgments --- p.iv ; Table of Contents --- p.vi ; Chapter Chapter 1: --- Introduction ´ؤ China and Intellectual Property --- p.1 ; Introduction ; What is Intellectual Property? ; Chenggong Music and Movies ; Lost in Translation ; Piracy ; Copying ; An Historical Perspective ; "The Past, Sharing, and Censorship" ; Methodology and Xi'an's Disc Market ; Chapter Breakdown ; Chapter Chapter 2: --- Literature Review 一 An Anthropological Approach to IP --- p.37 ; The Anthropology of Property ; Human Rights Discourses ; Economic Pragmatism? ; The Return of Power ; Toward a Theory of IP ; Metaphorical Framing ; Stages of IP Advocacy ; Local Contextualization ; China: Global Pressure and Local Response ; Chapter Chapter 3: --- Daoban as a Moral Business --- p.60 ; The Commoditization of IP ; Price is all that Matters! ; Pricing Practices within Stores ; Pricing Determinants ; Moving Beyond Price and Quality ; Consumer Fraud and Fakes: The Breakdown of Price and Quality ; Competition and the Disc Business ; Is it Zhengban or Daoban? ; Doubting the Difference ; Relative Morality: Guilt and Stealing ; The Ambivalent Position of Chinese Retail Business ; Conclusion: Passive Contestation and the Moral Sphere ; Chapter Chapter 4: --- Daoban as an Illegal Commodity --- p.104 ; Petty Economic Crime ; "Cheating, Plagiarism, and Painting" ; Petty Economic Illegality ; Illegality in China's Context: The Government Connection ; Backing (beijing) ; Corruption ; Structural Issues: Officials and Enforcement ; Policing Norms ; Norms of Copyright Enforcement ; Social Consequences of Enforcement ; Action Against Vendors ; Action Against Pornography ; Justifications and Responses ; Conclusion: Daoban and Illegality ; Chapter Chapter 5: --- Daoban and Intangible Property --- p.155 ; What is Daoban? ; Dowloading and the ...

Intro -- Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Hacking Broadcast History -- Bootlegging the Airwaves -- Bootlegging Broadcasting as Capturing Flow -- Bootlegged Recordings as a Broadcast Commodity -- Bootlegging as Distributive Labor -- Accessing Traces of Radio and Television Bootlegging -- Chapter Breakdown -- 1. Homemade Entertainment: The Prehistory of Bootlegging Radio -- Ephemerality and Preservation Culture -- Making Media Commodities Domestic -- Home-Recording Technologies and Domestic Media Production -- Technological Convergence, Domestic Media, and Radio Bootlegging -- 2. Hello Again: The Informal Old-Time-Radio Economy -- From Networked Broadcasting to Networked Bootlegging -- The Development of the Informal Old-Time-Radio Network -- Historical Consciousness, OTR, and Race -- 3. Freeze-Framing Queerness: Tape Trading in Buddy-Cop Fan Cultures -- Tape Trading and Television -- Female Fans, Buddy-Cop Shows, and Tape-Trading Culture -- 4. We Had to Do It the Hard Way: Bootlegging Star Trek in Australia -- Communal Viewing of Bootlegged Episodes as Television Distribution -- 5. Enough of That Garbage: Wrestling Observer and the Intelligent Wrestling-Fan Community -- Televised Wrestling's Regionalized Structure -- Tape Trading and the Intelligent Wrestling Fan -- Conclusion: Bootlegging after the Airwaves -- Bootlegging as Embodied Distributive Labor -- Bootlegging and the Production of Physical Commodities -- The Future of Bootlegging in the Streaming Era -- Notes -- Index.

"Long before internet archives and the anytime, anywhere convenience of streaming, people collected, traded, and shared radio and television content via informal networks that crisscrossed transnational boundaries. Eleanor Patterson's fascinating cultural history explores the distribution of radio and TV tapes from the 1960s through the 1980s. Looking at bootlegging against the backdrop of mass media's formative years, Patterson delves into some of the major subcultures of the era. Old-time radio aficionados felt the impact of inexpensive audio recording equipment and the controversies surrounding programs like Amos 'n' Andy. Bootlegging communities devoted to buddy cop TV shows like Starsky and Hutch allowed women to articulate female pleasure and sexuality while Star Trek videos in Australia inspired a grassroots subculture built around community viewings of episodes. Tape trading also had a profound influence on creating an intellectual pro wrestling fandom that aided wrestling's growth into an international sports entertainment industry. Original and engaging, Bootlegging the Airwaves shares the story of how fan passion and technology merged into a flourishing subculture"--

A study of the involvement of organized-crime and terrorist groups in product counterfeiting. Case studies of film piracy illustrate the problem of criminal-and perhaps terrorist-groups using this new high-payoff, low-risk way to fund their activities. Cooperation among law enforcement and governments worldwide is needed to combat intellectual-property theft, which threatens the global information economy, public safety, and national security

2 The Business of "Pirated Editions" -- 3 Student Rivalries -- Chapter 3 The War of the Biographers -- 1 The Pietist Front: Christian Gerber and the Historia derer Wiedergebohrnen in Sachsen -- 2 The First Literary Depictions of the Lives of Christian Thomasius and August Hermann Francke -- 3 The World of the Copper Engravers -- 4 The Harsh Laws of Competition -- 5 Eulogies, Dialogues of the Dead, (Auto)Biographies: The "Instability" of Literary Genres -- Chapter 4 The Wolffian Leibniz -- 1 S. W. -- 2 The Argument with Johann Franz Budde -- 3 Eclecticism, the Mathematical Method, Atheism

In many sectors, copying is more or less accepted as a business strategy. Knockoff products that look, taste, and sound suspiciously like 'originals' abound in upscale chain restaurants, fashion outlets, and contemporary architecture. And such industries typically regard the pervasive piracy as a spur toward further innovation-even though individual designers and creators may condemn it. However, as As Kal Raustiala and Christopher Sprigman demonstrate in this consistently entertaining work, such fields have not suffered any loss of vibrancy. Driven by a counterintuitive thesis that has been highlighted in both The New Yorker and The New York Times¸ The Knockoff Economy is an engrossing and highly entertaining tour through the economic sectors where piracy both rules and invigorates.