Books & ideas

Inventors' Rights

Sophie Harnay — 2024-07-09T12:51:17Z

Employees are the primary inventors, but they are often deprived of their rights by legal strategies that capture their expertise. In response, new forms of resistance are emerging, based on open access.

What Political Economy for Science?

Brice Laurent — 2023-12-26T08:30:00Z

By putting forward an analysis of the historical depths of the bonds connecting science to capitalism, Gabriel Galvez-Behar's book opens up stimulating research perspectives for a critical analysis of the political economy of knowledge.

Confusion on the Commons

Allan Greer — 2014-12-08T08:00:00Z

At a time when the issue of intellectual property dominates the Internet, the struggle for control of the digital universe is increasingly known as the “second enclosure movement” - a misleading moniker, argues Allan Greer.

The Commons, Old and New

Eva Hemmungs Wirtén — 2013-06-17T08:00:00Z

The idea of the Commons prospers today as a powerful trope of twenty-first century sharing. To tell the story of how yesterday's digging and grazing became today's googling and sampling, we need to look more closely at the way the unique properties of the modern information landscape come into focus by reference to the old commons economy: through the concepts of user rights, openness and enclosure.