Information liberation. Challenging the corruptions of information power

Prometheus, Vol. 13, No. 1, June 1995, pp. 6-19; Surendra J. Patel, “Intellectual property rights in the Uruguay Round: a disaster for the South?” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 24, No. 18, 6 May 1989, pp. 978-993; Darrell A. Posey and Graham Dutfield, Beyond Intellectual Property: Toward Traditional Rights for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (Ottawa: International Development Research Centre, 1996).

4

Peter Drahos, “Decentring communication: the dark side of intellectual property,” in Tom Campbell and Wojciech Sadurski (eds.), Freedom of Communication (Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1994), pp. 249-279, at p. 274.

5

Vandana Shiva and Radha Holla-Bhar, “Intellectual piracy and the neem tree,” Ecologist, Vol. 23, No. 6, 1993, pp. 223-227.

6

Victor Papanek, Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (London: Thames and Hudson, 1985, 2nd edition), p. xi.

7

George Munster, Secrets of State: A Detailed Assessment of the Book They Banned (Australia: Walsh & Munster, 1982).

8

Wendy M. Grossman, “alt.scientology.war,” Wired, Vol. 3, No. 12, December 1995, pp. 172-177, 248-252.

9

David D. Kirkpatrick, “Brilliant minds may think alike, but Brilliant lines can cost you,” Wall Street Journal, 27 January 1997, p. B1.

10

Lance Rose, “Technical foul: the NBA double dribbles on intellectual property,” Wired, Vol. 5, No. 1, January 1997, p. 96.

11

Rob Edwards, “Scottish court case could unravel the Web,” New Scientist, 16 November 1996, p. 5.

12

Edwin C. Hettinger, “Justifying intellectual property,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol. 18, No. 1, Winter 1989, pp. 31-52, quotes at pp. 39 and 42. See also David Vaver, “Intellectual property today: of myths and paradoxes,” Canadian Bar Review, Vol. 69, No. 1, March 1990, pp. 98-128.

13

Thomas Mandeville, Understanding Novelty: Information, Technological Change, and the Patent System (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1996).

14

David Vaver, “Rejuvenating copyright,” Canadian Bar Review, Vol. 75, March 1996, pp. 69-80.

15

James Boyle, Shamans, Software, and Spleens: Law and the Social Construction of the Information Economy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996).

16

C. Edwin Baker, Human Liberty and Freedom of Speech (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).

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On these points, see respectively Jeffrey Ian Ross (ed.), Controlling State Crime: An Introduction (New York: Garland, 1995); Steve Wright, “The new technologies of political repression: a case for arms control?” Philosophy and Social Action, Vol. 17, Nos. 3-4, July-December 1991, pp. 31-62; Nils Christie, Crime Control as Industry: Towards Gulags, Western Style (London: Routledge, 1994, 2nd edition); Alfie Kohn, Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise, and other Bribes (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993).