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

Phillip Kalantzis-Cope

Chapter 6 in Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society, 2010, pp 131-144 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract 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.

Keywords: Intellectual Property; Social Justice; World Trade Organization; Digital Technology; Digital Network (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230299047_22

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