A Critical Guide to Intellectual Property

✍ Scribed by Callahan, Mathew;Rogers, Jim

Publisher: Zed Books Ltd
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

A wide-ranging critique of the concept and practice of intellectual property.;Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; 1. Why intellectual property? Why now?; 2. Running through the jungle; Section One: Historical context and conceptual frameworks; 3. Intellectual property rights and their diffusion around the world; 4. The political economy of intellectual property; 5. I am because I own vs. I am because we are; Section Two: Terrains of conflict and terms of engagement; 6. Owning up to owning traditional knowledge of medicinal plants; 7. Using human rights to move beyond reformism to radicalism; 8. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

✦ Table of Contents

Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
1. Why intellectual property? Why now?
2. Running through the jungle
Section One: Historical context and conceptual frameworks
3. Intellectual property rights and their diffusion around the world
4. The political economy of intellectual property
5. I am because I own vs. I am because we are
Section Two: Terrains of conflict and terms of engagement
6. Owning up to owning traditional knowledge of medicinal plants
7. Using human rights to move beyond reformism to radicalism
8. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. 9. Free software and open source movements from digital rebellion to Aaron Swartz
Coda: What's radical about free/open source software?
Section Three: Law, policy and jurisdiction
10. Rethinking the World Intellectual Property Organization
11. What is intellectual property?
12. Piracy, states and the legitimation of authority
13. Summary and concluding remarks
About the editors and contributors
Index.

✦ Subjects

Intellectual property;LAW--Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice;;Electronic books;LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice

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