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Steal This Idea: Intellectual Property Rights and the Corporate Confiscation of Creativity

By Michael Perelman (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Year
2002
ISBN
978-1-4039-6713-8, 978-1-137-07929-9
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-07929-9
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
28 MB (29585362 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
IV, 265\263
Time added
2017-04-19 23:42:10
Economic Policy;Knowledge Management;Industrial Orgeneral;Political Economy;Economic Systems

Description

This book describes how corporate powers have erected a rapacious system of intellectual property rights to confiscate the benefits of creativity in science and culture. This legal system threatens to derail both economic and scientific progress, while disrupting society and threatening personal freedom. Perelman argues that the natural outcome of this system is a world of excessive litigation, intrusive violations of privacy, the destruction system of higher education, interference with scientific research, and a lopsided distribution of income.

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