Resisting intellectual property law

"Over the past decade, the scope of copyright and patent law has grown significantly, strengthening property rights, even when such rights seem to infringe upon other more basic priorities. This book investigates the ways in which activists, scholars, and communities are resisting the expansion of copyright and patent law in the information age." "Debora J. Halbert explores how an alternative framework for understanding intellectual property is being developed. This alternative, emerging through the work of legal scholars, social movements, the use of civil disobedience, and a struggle to control the public perception of intellectual property law, is a different analysis regarding how we ought to think about intellectual property." "This book examines the ways in which the idea of intellectual property is being re-thought by the victims of an over-expansive legal system. It will appeal to students and researchers from a range of disciplines, from law and political science to computer science, with an interest in intellectual property."--BOOK JACKET.