"This compilation links a wide spectrum of political, social and cultural issues embedded in 'the property question‘. Varied voices explore new paradigms of practice in relation to the global intellectual property regime, its enforcement as well as its violation and subversion by a compelling array of resilient figures...This account describes the radical contemporary shifts in the production, distribution and consumption of cultural materials through the networks of digital media. It deconstructs the capital-driven processes of enclosure in the contexts of software, file-sharing, patents, biopiracy, indigenous knowledge, cyber art, virtual exchange, literary history, theology and law, among others. It complicates the meaning of 'community', and narrates how technology continues to enable an unprecedented levelling of exclusionary hierarchies and hegemonies all over the world. It scrutinises the logic of appropriation and the discourse of protectionism, even while it celebrates the emancipatory potential of knowledge sharing through the ethical creation of a commons that is vibrant, open and free." - excerpt from back cover
With biographies of conference participants.
Note: The contents of this book are available for download on the Sarai website.
Onsite
English
conference,  technology,  mass media,  appropriation,  cyberculture,  public sphere,  cultural studies,  India
2005
170
8190142968
1
conference proceedings
Conference Brief
Rapporteur's Note
Conference Narrative
New World Order and the Public Domain
Rewiring the Circuit: Property and the Public Domain
The Not-Quite Publics and the Public Domain
Patents, Public Health and the Public Goods Problem
Between Anarchy and Oligarchy
The Persistence of Authorship
The Possession of the Authors
Authors, Owners and Appropriators
Media Empires and the Figure of the Pirate
Culture Beyond Property
US Path to Wealth and Power: Intellectual Piracy and the Making of America
Embodied Property to Disembodied Signs
Network Conflicts
Spatial Conflicts and Property Regimes
Media Practice and the Figure of the Pirate
Open Round Table
Magna Carta and the Commons
Free Media Lounge
Conference Interviews
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