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From Consumers to Users: Shifting the Deeper Structures of Regulation Towards Sustainable Commons and User Access

Benkler, Y. (2000). From Consumers to Users: Shifting the Deeper Structures of Regulation Towards Sustainable Commons and User Access. Federal Communications Law Journal, 52, 561-579.

In this paper, Benkler demonstrates that regulatory policy in the digitally networked environment is being used to replicate the current mass media structure in which individuals are passive consumers and argues [...]

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Copyrighting Culture. The Political Economy of Intellectual Property

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 [...]

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Intellectual Property Law

Bentley, L., & Sherman, B. (2001). Intellectual Property Law. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

ISBN Number 0199292043

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From Friday to Sunday: the hacker ethic and shifting notions of labour, leisure and intellectual property

Brown, J. (2008). From Friday to Sunday: the hacker ethic and shifting notions of labour, leisure and intellectual property. Leisure Studies, 27, 395-409.

Leisure studies scholars have theorised how the Web is changing leisure experiences, and this essay continues that work by discussing the Web and shifting notions of leisure, labour and intellectual property. Much online [...]

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International software piracy: Analysis of key issues and impacts

Gopal, R. D., & Sanders, G. L. (1998). International software piracy: Analysis of key issues and impacts. Information Systems Research, 9, 380-397.

The pervasiveness of software piracy throughout the world is having a profound effect on the software publishing industry and the development of digital intellectual properties and technologies-especially in developing countries, where the piracy rates [...]

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Bio-prospecting or bio-piracy: Intellectual property rights and biodiversity in a colonial and postcolonial context

Merson, J. (2000). Bio-prospecting or bio-piracy: Intellectual property rights and biodiversity in a colonial and postcolonial context. Osiris, 15, 282-296.

Despite the rhetoric of decolonization following World War II, developing countries are, if anything, more dependent now on the science and technology of the developed world than they were in colonial times. This has led some [...]

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