Description du produit
- Catégories: Propriété Intellectuelle
- Editeur: ZED BOOKS LTD.
- ISBN: 9781786991133
- Date de publication: 01/01/2017
- Reliure : Broché
- Langue: Anglais
Résumé
From genetically modified foods to digital piracy, the concept of
intellectual property (IP) and the laws upholding it play a central
economic role in our society today, but its political and ideological
dimensions have rarely been understood outside of specialist circles.
This collection cuts through the legal jargon that so often surrounds IP
in order to provide a comprehensive history and close analysis that
explore the corporate interests that have shaped how IP is conceived and
managed.
Up-to-date and comprehensive, this book examines the
wider implications of the concept of IP and questions how IP law has
been used to safeguard and assert the ownership of ideas and creativity.
Today, with mounting challenges from the growth of free software and
open source movements, this collection provides an accessible and
alternative guide to IP, exploring its significance within the wider
struggle between capital and the commons.
Table des matières
1 Why intellectual property? Why now?
2 Running through the jungle: my introduction to intellectual property
Section One: Historical Context and Conceptual Frameworks
3 Intellectual property rights and their diffusion around the world: towards a global history
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: A2K for schools, libraries and archives
8 Meet the new boss, same as the old boss: copyright and continuity in the contemporary music economy
9 Free software and open source movements from digital rebellion to
Aaron Swartz: responses to government and corporate attempts at
suppression and enclosure
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