A Critical Guide to Intellectual Property

Cover......Page 1
Halftitle......Page 2
Title page......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
List of abbreviations......Page 9
Introduction......Page 12
Social movements......Page 13
Property is an outmoded concept......Page 15
Politics and technology......Page 16
Outline of the book to follow......Page 17
2. Running through the jungle......Page 25
The record deal: standard industry practice in the twentieth century......Page 28
Music, technology, legislation and revenue-generation......Page 31
Attempts at reform......Page 33
There ain’t no “I” if there ain’t no “we”......Page 35
Credit and just compensation......Page 37
Notes......Page 39
Section One. Historical context and conceptual frameworks......Page 42
Introduction......Page 44
Pushing the present back into the past......Page 46
The impulse towards a nomothetic narrative......Page 49
Where are property rights in other knowledge traditions?......Page 52
Historical contingency, or universalism plus individualism......Page 58
Conclusion: towards an idiographic approach to IP history......Page 60
Notes......Page 61
Introduction......Page 67
The political economy of intellectual property......Page 68
The costs of intellectual property......Page 76
Concluding remarks......Page 78
Notes......Page 79
Introduction......Page 81
Possessive individualism......Page 84
What is philosophy?......Page 88
The Enlightenment......Page 90
John Locke: ownership of self, other people and ideas......Page 93
From Locke to Hegel......Page 99
Truth cannot be owned......Page 102
Notes......Page 103
Section Two. Terrains of conflict and terms of engagement......Page 108
Introduction......Page 110
TEK + TMK = $$ ??......Page 111
Examples of state actors: INDECOPI / NCAB and TKDL......Page 115
VSS that require ABS......Page 118
The case of Peruvian maca......Page 120
Concluding remarks......Page 121
Notes......Page 124
Introduction......Page 128
The public interest and user human rights......Page 129
Knowledge, A2K and copyright......Page 135
The A2K movement......Page 137
Schools, libraries and archives......Page 140
Examples of existing tiers of copyright protection......Page 143
Skladany’s revenue-based tiers......Page 144
Conclusion......Page 146
Notes......Page 148
Introduction......Page 155
Digitalization, crisis and the “death of copyright”?......Page 157
Copyright and the courts: enclosing musical cyberspace......Page 162
Exploiting music IPRs in the digital age......Page 165
Summary......Page 172
Notes......Page 173
Software and shared code......Page 177
Intellectual property and societal benefit......Page 179
Digital rebellion with software licenses......Page 181
Cultural rebellion with content licenses......Page 183
The open access movement......Page 186
Freedom of information and freedom of expression......Page 187
The Aaron Swartz case......Page 190
Today: corporate influences challenge our freedoms......Page 191
Summation and moving forward......Page 195
Coda: What’s radical about free/open source software?......Page 198
Notes......Page 203
Section Three. Law, policy and jurisdiction......Page 208
Introduction......Page 210
WIPO’s history......Page 214
WIPO today......Page 216
A different WIPO story......Page 221
Notes......Page 225
Introduction......Page 228
What is intellectual property?......Page 230
Power and (lack of) evidence: the drivers of intellectual property policy......Page 233
Intellectual property, through the eyes of economics......Page 236
Applying the framework: the case of JSTOR and Aaron Swartz......Page 238
Toward a saner intellectual property future......Page 241
Notes......Page 245
12. Piracy, states and the legitimation of authority......Page 249
What is piracy?......Page 252
Legal definition of piracy......Page 254
The black market......Page 257
Who’s pirating who?......Page 261
Knowledge to all is freedom of thought......Page 264
Notes......Page 265
13. Summary and concluding remarks......Page 268
The history of intellectual property rights must be re-written......Page 269
A tiered approach to copyright is fundamental to enhancing education......Page 270
A world without copyright promises new possibilities for music and the arts......Page 272
Proposals for a more equitable balancing of the public good against private interests......Page 273
A new WIPO order......Page 274
A radical refocusing of IPR policy analyses......Page 276
Notes......Page 277
About the editors and contributors......Page 278
Index......Page 280