A Report from the Frontlines of the Intellectual Property Wars," METRO Symposium, New York, 15 February 2007.
"Copyright in the Digital Era: Higher Education on the Front Lines of the Intellectual Property Wars," University of Missouri, Columbia, 17 March 2004.
Many people see it as a fount of endless intellectual property wars between tech firms, or fuel for thuggish, "patent trolls," ready to exploit the system's protections for cash.
Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates.
READ MORE: Which side of the property wars are you on?
Piracy explores the intellectual property wars from the advent of print culture in the fifteenth century to the reign of the Internet in the twenty-first.
He is the author of Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age (Norton, 2010), Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates (Chicago, 2009), and The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (Chicago, 1998), as well as dozens of papers in the histories of science, the book, media, and information.
A recipient of numerous awards, he is the author of three books: Death of a Pirate: British Radio and the Making of the Information Age (W.W. Norton, 2010); Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates University of Chicago Presss, 2009) and The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (University of Chicago Press, 1998).
SetNet's software, which was sold in partnership with Hewlett-Packard beginning in 2002, could be viewed as important "prior art" in the intellectual-property wars that have pitted Visto and its investment partner, NTP, against Seven Networks and Motorola's Good Technology Group, as well as Microsoft and Research in Motion.
Martens wrote books on the right of private property in war (1869); the expansion of Russia and Great Britain in Central Asia (1879); international law (1882); and the Berlin conference of 1884 85, concerning European spheres of influence in Africa, the Middle East, China, and the Pacific (1887).
