Information feudalism
by Peter Drahos, John Braithwaite · first published 2002
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"In a few short years, the battle over intellectual property rights has emerged from obscurity to become front-page news. The continent-hopping, three-year court battle fought by activists to bring cheap versions of desperately needed AIDS drugs to South Africa is but one example of how this seemingly arcane area of international regulation has become a crucial battleground in the twenty-first century and is animating activists the world over. This powerful book is the definitive history of how the new global intellectual property regime - the rulebook for the knowledge economy - came to be. D
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…creator to be repaid by the person who grabbed it. Well, yes... Supposing that IP rights should exist! Instead of getting dragged into a big long debate, I'll just give you two sources. The first, "Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy?" by Peter Drahos and John Braithwaite chronicles the harm brought by IP with real world examples. The second, "Against Intellectual Property" by Stephan Kinsella is a…
on “The Two Teenagers Who Run the Popular Twitter Feed @HistoryInPics” ↗…comparison. Although lots of people argue that China's weak enforcement of non-Chinese IP has had rather a positive influence on their industry. There's a good history of patents and cartelisation in "Information Feudalism" http://www.amazon.co.uk/Information-Feudalism-Owns-Knowledge...
on “Newegg vs. Patent Trolls: When We Win, You Win” ↗…to consumers of pharmaceuticals and national governments." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9013034/ This paper alone should probably get you depressed, but if that gets you going, read "Information Feudalism" by Peter Drahos, then you'll understand how people in power truly have no respect for human lives in developing countries.
on “If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing” ↗…a certain limited amount of security against other*, nastier, agents trying to get at your data. See https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/12/feudal_sec.ht... (there's an excellent book called "Information Feudalism" on related IP issues)
on “Charles Stross YAPCA keynote: The world in 2034” ↗…about the subject of patents and this apparatus and how they basically muscled the world into abidding to US lobbies, including massively fucking poor countries with respect to pharmaceutical patents is "Information Feudalism: Who owns the knowledge economy?" https://thenewpress.com/books/information-feudalism
on “Amazon deleted my Final Space digital purchases of season 1 and 2” ↗…(see any number of authors and recording artists who point out that the major threat to an artist's livelihood is obscurity, not copyright infringement), imperialistic dominance of international markets (Information Feudalism is a well-researched book by academic experts spanning close to two decades' worth of intensive work), and even the overall benefit to humanity of free reuse of works (see Advancement Through License…
on “Copying is an act of love. Please copy and share” ↗…the media I consume. My concerns with IP are more wide reaching, particularly with respect to the medical and agriculture industries. (And more personally, the software industry.) The book I cited, "Information Feudalism," chronicles this to a (horrifying) extent. In broad terms, countries rich in IP use it to extort developing countries. I recognize the OP of this article sets the context with youthful apathy that can…
on “The Two Teenagers Who Run the Popular Twitter Feed @HistoryInPics” ↗See also the book "Information Feudalism", which does a good job of looking at this from an IP perspective.
on “Everything is amazing, but nothing is ours” ↗Information Feudalism (Drahos & Braithwaite) has lots more on this subject. After both world wars there was a lot of .. forced technology transfer from Germany.
on “ARM memo tells staff to stop working with Huawei” ↗