Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy?

This book covers the evolution of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), the charter that governs intellectual property disputes across the world. It uses interviews with key players to show how transformations in information ownership have taken place. It also describes the story of how a small group of multinational corporations "wrote the charter for a new global information order."

Information Feudalism demonstrates "why the world of intellectual property rights, patent regimes, and anti-trust laws is an urgent concern for ordinary citizens." According to the authors, an increasingly wider range of everyday activities - "from swinging in a swing to traditional farming techniques - are identified and commodified as intellectual property..."

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