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Every book, treaty, and patent hides a secret identity: the bibliographic code. 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. 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. 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 like.

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