Information liberation. Challenging the corruptions of information power

18

Robert M. Entman, Democracy without Citizens: Media and the Decay of American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).

19

Baker (see note 16).

20

Benjamin Ginsberg, The Captive Public: How Mass Media Promotes State Power (New York: Basic Books, 1986).

21

Stanley Ingber, “The marketplace of ideas: a legitimizing myth,” Duke Law Journal, Vol. 1984, No. 1, February 1984, pp. 1-91.

22

Laurie Stearns, “Copy wrong: plagiarism, process, property, and the law,” California Law Review, Vol. 80, No. 2, March 1992, pp. 513-553.

23

Thomas Mallon, Stolen Words: Forays into the Origins and Ravages of Plagiarism (New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1989); Ari Posner, “The culture of plagiarism,” The New Republic, 18 April 1988, pp. 19-24.

24

Brian Martin, “Plagiarism: a misplaced emphasis,” Journal of Information Ethics, Vol. 3, No. 2, Fall 1994, pp. 36-47.

25

Vaver, 1990 (see note 12).

26

Kohn (see note 17).

27

John Baker, Arguing for Equality (London: Verso, 1987); Morton Deutsch, Distributive Justice: A Social-psychological Perspective (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985); William Ryan, Equality (New York: Pantheon, 1981).

28

These two strategies are proposed by Peter Drahos, “Thinking strategically about intellectual property rights,” paper prepared for the Forum of Parliamentarians on Intellectual Property and the National Working Group on Patent Laws, 1996.

29

The magazine Third World Resurgence has regular reports on this issue. See for example Martin Khor, “A worldwide fight against biopiracy and patents on life,” Third World Resurgence, No. 63, November 1995, pp. 9-11, and the special issues on patenting of life: No. 57, May 1995 and No. 84, August 1997.

30

GNU’s Bulletin, January 1995 (Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston MA 02111-1307, USA; [email protected]). See http://www.gnu.org/ for the latest description.

31

Alfie Kohn, The Brighter Side of Human Nature: Altruism and Empathy in Everyday Life (New York: Basic Books, 1990).

Footnotes to chapter 4

1

See, among others, David Burnham, The Rise of the Computer State (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983); Duncan Campbell and Steve Connor, On the Record: Surveillance, Computers and Privacy — The Inside Story (London: Michael Joseph, 1986); Ann Cavoukian and Don Tapscott, Who Knows: Safeguarding Your Privacy in a Networked World (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997); Roger A. Clarke, “Information technology and dataveillance,” Communications of the ACM, Vol. 31, No. 5, May 1988, pp. 498-512; Simon Davies, Monitor: Extinguishing Privacy on the Information Superhighway (Sydney: Pan Macmillan, 1996); David H. Flaherty, Protecting Privacy in Surveillance Societies: The Federal Republic of Germany, Sweden, France, Canada, and the United States (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989); Oscar H. Gandy, Jr., The Panoptic Sort: A Political Economy of Personal Information (Boulder, CO: