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Whose Property? Mapping Intellectual Property Rights, Contextualizing Digital Technology and Framing Social Justice

In: Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society

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  • Phillip Kalantzis-Cope

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Over the last 30 years we have witnessed a number of consequential shifts in the various domains of intellectual property, such as copyright, patents and trademarks. One of the most important of these has been the use of intel-lectual property rights to articulate and formulate a new global economic regulatory order. Through international agreements such as the World Trade Organization’s (WTO’s) Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights agreement (TRIPS), there has been enormous pressure for nation-states to revise national frameworks to align with a singular definition of intellectual property as a private property right. This definition extends the logic of “real property” within a commodity-driven, market mediated economic system, into the domain of knowledge and information production. Importantly, this definition imposes the restrictions of economic scarcity onto a domain of infinite productive capacity.

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  • Phillip Kalantzis-Cope, 2010. "Whose Property? Mapping Intellectual Property Rights, Contextualizing Digital Technology and Framing Social Justice," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Phillip Kalantzis-Cope & Karim Gherab-Martín (ed.), Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society, chapter 6, pages 131-144, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-29904-7_22
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230299047_22
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