[IP] The war about intellectual property
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Dave Farber +1 412 726 9889
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From: Dan Hunter <hunterd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 13:28:56 -0400
Subj: The war about intellectual property
Hi Dave:
For IP if you like. A draft paper of mine about the war over
intellectual property, conceived as a Marxist class struggle. Will
enrage both sides, no doubt. Comments welcome.
best wishes
Dan.
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CULTURE WAR
Abstract: Over the last ten years, much of copyright and patent has
come under attack from those who suggest that capture by private
interests has had a pernicious influence on public policy in this
field. In the related areas of telecommunication spectrum management
and internet regulation there have emerged strong arguments for not
allocating private property interests, and instead considering these
domains as commons property. I suggest that, together, these
developments form part of a culture war, a war over the means of
production of creative content in our society. I argue that the best
way to understand this war is to view it as a Marxist struggle.
However, I suggest that copyright and patent reform—where commentators
have actually been accused of Marxism—is not where the Marxist
revolution is taking place. Instead I locate that revolution
elsewhere, most notably in the rise of open source production and
dissemination of cultural content.
Available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=586463
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Dan Hunter
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia PA 19104 USA
Research at http://www.ssrn.com/author_id=243354
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