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Owning the World of Ideas

Owning the World of Ideas

Intellectual Property and Global Network Capitalism

• Matthew David
• Debora Halbert

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Matthew David and Debora Halbert 2015

First published 2015

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2015939816

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ISBN 978-1-4739-1576-3

eISBN 978-1-4739-2756-8

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David and Halbert provide a timely, concise and cosmopolitan guide to the contradictions and paradoxes that vex the systems of intellectual property that govern the so-called knowledge economy in an era of globalized informational capital. With its crisp prose and comprehensive coverage, it will be a welcome user-friendly manual to introduce students to intellectual property issues across the academy.

Rosemary J. Coombe, Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Culture, York University

Intellectual property is arguably the branch of law that speaks most directly to the state of capitalist society as a whole, yet until now there hasnt really been a book that makes both the fields traditional issues and cutting edge developments accessible to non-specialists in the social sciences. David and Halbert have written just such a book. Owning the World of Ideas is organized around the idea that intellectual property is the pivotal site for studying the interplay of regulation and de-regulation in the shaping of capitalism. The result is a stunning achievement of both comprehensiveness and concision that will be difficult to match in the future.

Steve Fuller, Auguste Comte Professor of Social Epistemology, University of Warwick, Author of The New Sociological Imagination and The Sociology of Intellectual Life

Intellectual property used to be a field for technicians, isolated in law practice and ignored by most social justice advocates. It is no longer and for good reason. Through their sustained evaluation of the concept critical in intellectual property law that ideas are a public good and unownable as private property, Halbert and David demonstrate how preserving the freedom of ideas in the face of global economic inequality and the inevitability of digital connectivity in the 21st century is critical to democratic engagement, health and human flourishing.

Jessica Sibley, Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School

In Owning the World of Ideas, David and Halbert offer an incisive, critical and powerful analysis of information capitalism, focusing on its monopolisation of knowledge and culture through increasingly aggressive structures of intellectual ownership. The authors present a timely counter to these trends, arguing instead for an approach to intellectual property that favours human well-being over and above the economic expropriation and monopolisation of knowledge. This is an important book which deserves a wide and appreciative audience.

Majid Yar, Professor of Sociology and Associate Director: Centre for Criminology & Criminal Justice (CCCJ), University of Hull

Owning the World of Ideas is a stimulating situation report on current political and legal struggles over intellectual property (IP), regarded only a few decades ago as the exclusive domain of specialist lawyers and economists. Written for a general readership by two well-known IP scholars, this well-researched book shows that while juridical IP control through copyright, patents, trademarks and other mechanisms is constantly expanding into new areas, IP rights are often ignored by the broad public and are frequently technically unenforceable. The authors describe how these various IP systems work, their defects, who benefits from them, the harm that they often cause, and forms that resistance has taken. By debunking overreaching claims that IP incentivises creativity, facilitates the spread of innovation and supports quality control, this accessible book will help to counterbalance often aggressive pro-IP propaganda from industry organisations.

Dr Colin Darch, Democratic Governance and Rights Unit, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town

About the Authors

Matthew Davidteaches sociology at Durham University (UK). He is the author of Peer to Peer and the Music Industry: The Criminalization of Sharing (Theory, Culture and Society Monograph Series 2010), Social Research: An Introduction (second edition, with Carole D. Sutton, Sage 2011), Science in Society (Palgrave 2005) and Knowledge Lost in Information (with David Zeitlyn and Jane Bex, Office of Humanities Press 1998). He recently completed editing (with Debora Halbert, Sage 2014) The Sage Handbook of Intellectual Property and (with Peter Millward, Sage 2014) the four-volume Researching Society Online. His research on file-sharing, live-streaming and new media has been published in British Journal of Sociology; European Journal of Social Theory; Sport in Society; Perspectives on Global Development and Technology; and Crime, Media, Culture

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