This book seeks to make an intervention into the ongoing debate about the scope and intensity of global copyright laws. While mapping out the primary actors in the context of globalization and the modern political economy of information ownership, the argument is made that alternatives to further expansion of copyright are necessary.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part One: Copyright and the State 1. Introduction 2. The State of Property: Seeking Stable Terrain for Intellectual Property 3. Piracy 4. Property and the State: Exporting Authenticity and The Territories of National Cultures Part Two: Culture and the State 5. Exporting Authenticity and the Hybridity of Culture: Or, who's a pirate anyway? 6. Critical Copyright, Cultural Flows, Traditional Knowledge and the Future Part Three: The Future 7. Mass Culture and the Culture of the Masses: A Manifesto for User-Generated Rights 8. Skipping through the Desert of the Real: Copyright Landscapes and the Future of Creativity
