Staake, T., & Fleisch, E. (2008). Countering Counterfeit Trade: Illicit Market Insights, Best-Practice Strategies, and Management Toolbox. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Counterfeit trade is a highly complex phenomenon. It is a ruthless crime as well as a smart knowledge-transfer strategy – and it is everything in between. Companies need a thorough understanding of the strategies of illicit [...]
Bowers, C. A. (2006). Revitalizing the Commons: Cultural and Educational Sites of Resistance and Affirmation. Oxford: Lexington Books.
The threats to what remains of the world’s diverse cultural and environmental commons represent a unique challenge to Western universities, particularly since what these universities have designated as high-status knowledge has played such a dominant role in undermining [...]
Bollier, D. (2005). Brand-name Bullies: The Quest to Own and Control Culture. Hoboken, N.J.: J. Wiley.
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An impassioned, darkly amusing look at how corporations misuse copyright law to stifle creativity and free speech
If you want to make fun of Mickey or Barbie on your Web site, you may be hearing from some corporate lawyers. You [...]
Boyle, J. (1996). Shamans, Software, and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
Who owns your genetic information? Might it be the doctors who, in the course of removing your spleen, decode a few cells and turn them into a patented product? In 1990 the Supreme Court of California [...]
Benkler, Y. (2006). The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. New Haven: Yale University Press.
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Brown, M. F. (2003). Who Owns Native Culture? Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
The practical and artistic creations of native peoples permeate everyday life in settler nations, from the design elements on our clothing to the plot-lines of books we read to our children. Rarely, however, do native communities benefit materially from this use of their [...]