Private property and public goods of information in view of copyright and copyleft
| Main Author: | Nuss, Sabine |
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| Format: | Journal PeerReviewed application/pdf |
| Bahasa: | eng |
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Library and Information Science Critique: Journal of the Sciences of Information Recorded in Documents : Crítica Bibliotecológica: Revista de las Ciencias de Información Documental
, 2011
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http://eprints.rclis.org/15727/1/c.b.vol.3.no.2.nuss.pdf http://eprints.rclis.org/15727/ |
Daftar Isi:
- This paper is intended to analyse some issues and phenomena related to the contemporary formation of the capitalist mode of production, now heavily dominated by information, or knowledge (and its new technologies). It challenges and rejects the simplistic and limited forms of analysis of the bourgeoisie to approach these phenomena where they call them: “globalization,”“Knowledge Society,” “Information Society,” “Information Age.” Instead, it intends to shed light on these phenomena based on concepts epistemologically more solid such as those based on Karl Marx’s theories to the critique of capitalism. It analyses the capitalist Private Property concept behind Intellectual Property Rights (e.g. copyright, patents, and so on) which are the bourgeois legislations enforced worldwide to commodify public information or knowledge goods. It also analyses the scholarly and political movements against commodification of information under the banners of Free Software, Open Source, Copyleft, Commons, Information Commons, Free Information Movements, etc. And although it praises some of their positions intenting on fostering liberty and cooperation among its members, it challenges their limited theoretical approaches towards becoming alternatives to capitalism, and it criticises their intrinsic capitalist nature which fosters a lack of stable employment for workers of information/knowledge industries in the long run. Finally, it calls attention to the need to deepen the analysis of these new phenomena by understanding the internal logic of capitalist Private Property in order to draw more epistemologically adequate strategies to challenge it, or understand it better.