Add to ORKGCopyright was invented by and for early capitalism, and its importance to that system has grown ever since. To oppose copyright is to oppose capitalism. Thus, Marxism is a natural starting point when challenging copyright. Marx's concept of a 'general intellect', suggesting that at some point a collective learning process will surpass physical labour as a productive force, offers a promising backdrop to understand the accomplishments of the free software community. Furthermore, the chief concerns of hacker philosophy, creativity and technological empowerment, closely correspond to key Marxist concepts of alienation, the division of labour, deskilling, and commodification. At the end of my inquiry, I will suggest that the development of free...
The Manifesto Concerning the Legal Protection of Computer Programs offers an extensive and challen...
Copyright law, in general, is a multi-faceted and sometimes difficult to understand process. Althoug...
Commentators argue that modern copyright law has been stretched to the limit. Some argue that digit...
This paper is intended to analyse some issues and phenomena related to the contemporary formation of...
303-313The paper deals with the development, which has provided a new perspective towards looking at...
Digital copyright has emerged as a key site of debate and dissent as a generation of consumers accus...
Two property regimes for software development may be distinguished. Within corporations, on the one ...
A copyright system reflects struggles to define the relationship between competing values. This comp...
Two property regimes for software development may be distinguished. Within corporations, on the one ...
Arguments about the proper scope of copyright protection focus on the economic consequences of varyi...
ABSTRACT. Chon attempts to map the challenges raised by recent encountersbetween intellectual proper...
Over the last ten years, much of copyright and patent has come under attack from those who suggest t...
Abstract The origins of copyright are well established, so it seems suitably clear what its origina...
The aim of the following thesis is to examine if the ideology behind the copyright laws of today pos...
Arguments about the proper scope of copyright protection focus on the economic consequences of varyi...
The Manifesto Concerning the Legal Protection of Computer Programs offers an extensive and challen...
Copyright law, in general, is a multi-faceted and sometimes difficult to understand process. Althoug...
Commentators argue that modern copyright law has been stretched to the limit. Some argue that digit...
This paper is intended to analyse some issues and phenomena related to the contemporary formation of...
303-313The paper deals with the development, which has provided a new perspective towards looking at...
Digital copyright has emerged as a key site of debate and dissent as a generation of consumers accus...
Two property regimes for software development may be distinguished. Within corporations, on the one ...
A copyright system reflects struggles to define the relationship between competing values. This comp...
Two property regimes for software development may be distinguished. Within corporations, on the one ...
Arguments about the proper scope of copyright protection focus on the economic consequences of varyi...
ABSTRACT. Chon attempts to map the challenges raised by recent encountersbetween intellectual proper...
Over the last ten years, much of copyright and patent has come under attack from those who suggest t...
Abstract The origins of copyright are well established, so it seems suitably clear what its origina...
The aim of the following thesis is to examine if the ideology behind the copyright laws of today pos...
Arguments about the proper scope of copyright protection focus on the economic consequences of varyi...
The Manifesto Concerning the Legal Protection of Computer Programs offers an extensive and challen...
Copyright law, in general, is a multi-faceted and sometimes difficult to understand process. Althoug...
Commentators argue that modern copyright law has been stretched to the limit. Some argue that digit...