9781473915763-1473915767-Owning the World of Ideas: Intellectual Property and Global Network Capitalism (SAGE Swifts)

Owning the World of Ideas: Intellectual Property and Global Network Capitalism (SAGE Swifts)

ISBN-13: 9781473915763
ISBN-10: 1473915767
Edition: 1
Author: Matthew David, Debora Halbert
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Format: Hardcover 136 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781473915763
ISBN-10: 1473915767
Edition: 1
Author: Matthew David, Debora Halbert
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Format: Hardcover 136 pages

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Owning the World of Ideas: Intellectual Property and Global Network Capitalism (SAGE Swifts) (ISBN-13: 9781473915763 and ISBN-10: 1473915767), written by authors Matthew David, Debora Halbert, was published by SAGE Publications Ltd in 2015. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other Franchising (Business Law, Communication & Media Studies, Social Sciences, Anthropology, Behavioral Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent Owning the World of Ideas: Intellectual Property and Global Network Capitalism (SAGE Swifts) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Franchising books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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Formally, ownership of ideas is legally impossible, and can never be globally secured. Yet, in very real and significant ways these limits have been undone. In principle, ideas cannot be owned, yet, undoing the distinction between ideas and tangible manifestations, the distinction which underpins the principle, allows the principle to hold even whilst its meaning is hollowed out.

Post-Cold War global network capitalism is premised upon regulatory structures designed to enforce deregulation in global markets and production, but at the same time to enforce global regulation of property and intellectual property in particular. However, this roll-out has not been without resistance and limitations. Globalization, the affordances of digital networks, and contradiction within capitalism itself - between private property and free markets - promote and undo global IP expansion.

In this book David and Halbert map the rise of global IP protectionism, debunk the key justifications given for IPRs, dismiss the arguments put forward for global extension and harmonization; and suggest that roll-back, suspension, and even simply the bi-passing of IP in practice offer better solutions for promoting innovation and meeting human needs.
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