title: The Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles
author:  Hillel Schwartz 
description: Considering how many tricky ethical and legal questions there are with various electronic reproductions, <b>The Culture of the Copy</b> is a timely book. Our fascination with copies, replicas, and reproduction is explored in this unusual and engaging historical and cultural survey. While it isn't solely about electronic copies, the historical review of the technology of reproduction sets our current debates over copyright and intellectual property in the digital age in perspective. In fact, Schwartz suggests that the ethical dilemmas in many fields have become inseparable from our pursuit of copies.
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  Copyright © 2019 Deborah Swift
  
  
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  First published in Great Britain in 2019 by Headline Publishing Group
  
  
  First published as an Ebook in Great Britain
  
  
  by Headline Publishing Group in 2019
  
  
  All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real
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