Media Piracy in the Cultural Economy

Name: Media Piracy in the Cultural Economy
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Media Piracy in the Cultural EconomyIntellectual Property and Labor Under Neoliberal Restructuring\nAuthor(s): Gavin Mueller\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032178233, 978-1032178233\nSynopsis\nThis 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. \n\nThe 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,.