David Bollier

Silent Theft (eBook, ePUB)

The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'They hang the man and flog the woman That steal the goose from off the common, But let the greater villain loose That steals the common from the goose.' - Traditional nursery rhyme Until a 1998 federal court decision, a Minnesota publisher claimed to own every federal court decision, including Roe v. Wade and Brown v. Board of Education. A Texas c

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136760341
• Artikelnr.: 39450592

Autorenporträt

David Bollier has worked for twenty years as a journalist, activist, and public policy analyst. He is Senior Fellow at the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Director of the Information Commons Project at the New America Foundation. He is also co-founder of Public Knowledge, a public-interest advocacy organization dedicated to defending the commons of the Internet, science and culture.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Reclaiming the Narrative of the Commons 2. The Stubborn Vitality of the
Gift Economy 3. When Markets Enclose the Commons 4. Enclosing the Commons
of Nature 5. The Colonization of Frontier Commons 6. The Abuse of the
Public's Natural Resources 7. Can the Internet Commons Be Saved? 8. The
Privatization of Public Knowledge 9. Enclosing the Academic Commons 10. The
Commercialization of Culture and Public Spaces 11. The Giveaway of Federal
Drug Research and Information Resources 12. The Commons: Another Kind of
Property 13. Strategies for Protecting the Commons