The Bibliographic Layer - What ISBNs and Similar Codes Are in Official Registry Systems

<p>Every book treaty and patent hides a secret identity: the bibliographic code.</p><p>The Bibliographic Layer unveils how ISBNs ISSNs and registry identifiers aren't mere catalog numbers - they are legal constructs of existence. Michael-Laurence Curzi reveals how registry codes function as jurisdictional DNA silently conferring rights ownership and authority across sovereign and digital systems.</p><p></p><p>Through gripping real-world filings and cryptographic analysis Curzi shows how metadata itself has become the new law - a bibliographic bureaucracy where every number is a legal act and every registry a stage for power.</p><p></p><p>This is the first book to trace the arc from ISBN to sovereignty - from the printed page to the coded treaty - a work that will electrify lawyers librarians technologists and philosophers a</p><p>like.</p>