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      Information Feudalism
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      Who Owns the Knowledge Economy?

      Information Feudalism

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      Information Feudalism book

      Who Owns the Knowledge Economy?
      ByPeter Drahos, John Braithwaite
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2002
      eBook Published 1 September 2017
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315092683
      Pages 272
      eBook ISBN 9781315092683
      Subjects Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Environment and Sustainability, Law, Politics & International Relations
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      Drahos, P., & Braithwaite, J. (2002). Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy? (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315092683

      ABSTRACT

      New intellectual property regimes are entrenching new inequalities. Access to information is fundamental to the exercise of human rights and marketplace competition, but patents are being used to lock up vital educational, software, genetic and other information, creating a global property order dominated by a multinational elite. How did intellectual property rules become part of the World Trade Organization's free trade agreements? How have these rules changed the knowledge game for international business? What are the consequences for the ownership of biotechnology and digital technology, and for all those who have to pay for what was once shared information? Based on extensive interviews with key players, this book tells the story of these profound transformations in information ownership. The authors argue that in the globalized information society, the rich have found new ways to rob the poor, and shows how intellectual property rights can be more democratically defined.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|18 pages

      Introduction

      chapter 2|20 pages

      Piracy

      chapter 3|22 pages

      The Knowledge Game

      chapter 4|13 pages

      Stealing from the Mind

      chapter 5|11 pages

      The Illusion of Sovereignty

      chapter 6|23 pages

      The Bilaterals

      chapter 7|13 pages

      Agendas and Agenda-setters: The Multilateral Game

      chapter 8|12 pages

      Persuasion and Principles

      chapter 9|17 pages

      At the Negotiating Table

      chapter 10|19 pages

      Biogopolies

      chapter 11|18 pages

      Infogopolies

      chapter 12|11 pages

      Democratic Property Rights

      chapter 13|12 pages

      Resisting the New Inequality

      chapter 14|10 pages

      On the Importance of the Publicness of Knowledge

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