This publication emerges from the Contested Commons/Trespassing Publics Conference on Inequalities, Conflicts and Intellectual Property, held in Delhi from 6-8 January 2005. The event was organized by the Sarai Programme at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in collaboration with the Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore and the Public Service Broadcasting Trust, Delhi. The book contains detailed reports of presentations, post-presentation discussions and transcripts of interviews with key speakers.

"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.
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Onsite

Location code
REF.SAP3
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2005

No of pages

170

ISBN / ISSN

8190142968

No of copies

1

Content type

conference proceedings

Chapter headings

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

Contested Commons / Trespassing Publics: A Public Record
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Contested Commons / Trespassing Publics: A Public Record