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 [...]]]> http://www.counter2010.org/2009/11/20/countering-counterfeit-trade/feed/ 0 http://www.counter2010.org/2009/01/27/revitalizing-the-commons-cultural-and-educational-sites-of-resistance-and-affirmation/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.counter2010.org/2009/01/27/revitalizing-the-commons-cultural-and-educational-sites-of-resistance-and-affirmation/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:37:56 +0000 Neil Horton 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 [...]]]> http://www.counter2010.org/2009/01/27/revitalizing-the-commons-cultural-and-educational-sites-of-resistance-and-affirmation/feed/ 0 http://www.counter2010.org/2009/01/27/brand-name-bullies-the-quest-to-own-and-control-culture/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.counter2010.org/2009/01/27/brand-name-bullies-the-quest-to-own-and-control-culture/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:36:56 +0000 Neil Horton Bollier, D. (2005). Brand-name Bullies: The Quest to Own and Control Culture. Hoboken, N.J.: J. Wiley.

Product Description 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 [...]]]> http://www.counter2010.org/2009/01/27/brand-name-bullies-the-quest-to-own-and-control-culture/feed/ 0 http://www.counter2010.org/2009/01/25/shamans-software-and-spleens-law-and-the-construction-of-the-information-society/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.counter2010.org/2009/01/25/shamans-software-and-spleens-law-and-the-construction-of-the-information-society/#comments Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:41:56 +0000 Neil Horton 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 [...]]]> http://www.counter2010.org/2009/01/25/shamans-software-and-spleens-law-and-the-construction-of-the-information-society/feed/ 0 http://www.counter2010.org/2009/01/13/the-wealth-of-networks-how-social-production-transforms-markets-and-freedom/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.counter2010.org/2009/01/13/the-wealth-of-networks-how-social-production-transforms-markets-and-freedom/#comments Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:28:56 +0000 Neil Horton Benkler, Y.  (2006). The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. New Haven: Yale University Press.

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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 [...]]]> http://www.counter2010.org/2009/01/12/who-owns-native-culture/feed/ 0 http://www.counter2010.org/2008/12/21/copyrighting-culture-the-political-economy-of-intellectual-property/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.counter2010.org/2008/12/21/copyrighting-culture-the-political-economy-of-intellectual-property/#comments Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:31:56 +0000 Neil Horton Bettig, R. V. (1996). Copyrighting Culture. The Political Economy of Intellectual Property. Boulder: Westview Press.

Introduction to the Political Economy of Intellectual Property The political-economic theory of communications has already made a significant contribution to our understanding of mass communications and society. Denis McQuail identified three prominent trends in media business and technology that have greatly increased [...]]]> http://www.counter2010.org/2008/12/21/copyrighting-culture-the-political-economy-of-intellectual-property/feed/ 0 http://www.counter2010.org/2008/12/17/intellectual-property-law/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://www.counter2010.org/2008/12/17/intellectual-property-law/#comments Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:29:56 +0000 Neil Horton Bentley, L., & Sherman, B. (2001). Intellectual Property Law. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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This book documents and evaluates the growing consumer revolution against digital copyright law, and makes a unique theoretical contribution to the debate surrounding this issue.

With a focus on recent US copyright law, the book charts the consumer rebellion against the [...]]]> http://www.counter2010.org/2008/07/23/digital-copyright-and-the-consumer-revolution-hands-off-my-ipod/feed/ 0