Steal This Idea: Intellectual Property and the Corporate Confiscation of Creativity - Softcover

Perelman, M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 140396713X ISBN 13: 9781403967138

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

Synopsis

This book describes how corporate powers have erected a rapacious system of intellectual property rights to confiscate the benefits of creativity in science and culture. This legal system threatens to derail both economic and scientific progress, while disrupting society and threatening personal freedom. Perelman argues that the natural outcome of this system is a world of excessive litigation, intrusive violations of privacy, the destruction system of higher education, interference with scientific research, and a lopsided distribution of income.

About this title

About the Author:

MICHAEL PERELMAN is the author of Class Warfare in the Information Age and Transcending the Economy. He is Professor of Economics at California State University at Chico.

Review:

"Steal This Idea deals with major issues surrounding IP in one neat and accessible work."--Virginia Brown Keyder, European Intellectual Property Review

"The book persuasively argues Perelman's point of viewbliog...this timely, thoughtful work is recommendedbliog..." -- Library Journal

"This useful and thought-provoking look at the economic effects of property rights in all their forms is recommendedbliog..."--Choice

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 140396713X
• ISBN 13: 9781403967138
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 269