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Type:
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Working Paper |
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Author:
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Bollier, David |
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Date:
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2001 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/3818
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Sector:
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New Commons
Information & Knowledge |
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Subject(s):
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Internet
technology
intellectual property rights
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Abstract:
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From introduction:
"It is the dark side of the digital revolution: how a variety of new intellectual property policies, in conjunction with new technologies, are greatly empowering sellers at consumers' expense; fostering market concentration over open competition; homogenizing our society's diversity of information and expression; constricting the public domain from which new creative works and business innovations derive; supplanting free access to information with pay-per-use regimes; introducing intrusive new forms of surveillance of individuals' use of copyrighted material; and subverting the open standards and 'gift culture' of the Internet which have been the very engines of our turn-of-the-century information explosion. This memorandum is an attempt to explain how these disturbing trends are remaking our society in pernicious ways."
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