Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property
Zone Books (Verlag)
978-1-890951-96-2 (ISBN)
At the end of the twentieth century, intellectual property rights collided with everyday life. Expansive copyright laws and digital rights management technologies sought to shut down new forms of copying and remixing made possible by the Internet. International laws expanding patent rights threatened the lives of millions of people around the world living with HIV/AIDS by limiting their access to cheap generic medicines. For decades, governments have tightened the grip of intellectual property law at the bidding of information industries; but recently, groups have emerged around the world to challenge this wave of enclosure with a new counter-politics of "access to knowledge" or "A2K." They include software programmers who took to the streets to defeat software patents in Europe, AIDS activists who forced multinational pharmaceutical companies to permit copies of their medicines to be sold in poor countries, subsistence farmers defending their rights to food security or access to agricultural biotechnology, and college students who created a new "free culture" movement to defend the digital commons.
Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property maps this emerging field of activism as a series of historical moments, strategies, and concepts. It gathers some of the most important thinkers and advocates in the field to make the stakes and strategies at play in this new domain visible and the terms of intellectual property law intelligible in their political implications around the world.
A Creative Commons edition of this work will be freely available online.
Gae lle Krikorian is a doctoral student at the E cole des Hautes E tudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and a member of the consultative board AC27 at the national research agency on HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis (ANRS). Amy Kapczynski is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, Law School. She cofounded Universities Allied for Essential Medicines in 2002. Amy Kapczynski is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, Law School. She cofounded Universities Allied for Essential Medicines in 2002. Gae lle Krikorian is a doctoral student at the E cole des Hautes E tudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and a member of the consultative board AC27 at the national research agency on HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis (ANRS). Anil Gupta is Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University. Laura DeNardis is Professor in the School of Communication at American University and serves as a Faculty Director of the American University Internet Governance Lab.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 16.11.2010 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property |
| Zusatzinfo | 61 b&w illus. |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 885 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Urheberrecht | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-890951-96-X / 189095196X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-890951-96-2 / 9781890951962 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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