Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property
lterrat's bookmarks 2016-10-18
Summary:
"As the following pages describe, new information-processing technologies have made certain kinds of knowledge and information increasingly critical to the accumulation and distribution of global wealth, as well as to the terms of our bodily and social existence. Information-processing industries responded to these shifts by pressing for—and achieving—unprecedented extensions of intellectual property rights in order to gain more control over the use and exchange of information across the globe."