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Title: Steal This Idea : Intellectual Property Rights and the Corporate Confiscation of Creativity by Michael Perelman ISBN: 0-312-29408-5 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 20 April, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $31.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Silent Thieves
Comment: Street thieves are incarcerated and corporate thieves are rewarded in our society. I have read Professor Perelman's book "Steal This Idea" twice and feel I am just coming to grips with the silent government running our country. Corporate America is the enemy of democracy through its donations to elected officials, retainers to influential Washington law firms, and its control of our media.
Dwight D. Eisenhower stated, "Every step we take toward making the State the caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our master." Corporations have merged to purge Americans of their wealth, creativity, and civil rights. Professor Perelman is to be commended for his exposition "How Intellectual Property Rights Enrich the Few While Undermining Liberty, Science, and Society." Read this book and you will learn how your civil rights and your freedom are slipping away rapidly.
I also bought five books for friends, as I didn't want them to be walking around in a fog not knowing what we have become as a nation. Karl Marx wrote, "In the valley of the blind with one eye you can be king." We are in the valley. Read the book, wake up, and be your own king.
Rating: 5
Summary: Who shall own knowledge?
Comment: Why does our property rights system grant huge sums of money to people who did nothing to create the knowledge that is the source of their wealth? Should so-called "private" corporations be allowed to make hundreds of millions of dollars off Federal and State court cases? Should workers be thrown in jail for filing patents in ideas that the companies they've worked at have ignored as unworthy of consideration for patenting?
These kinds of issues strain our sense of just what property is and as Michael Perelman shows in his clearly written text full of actual yet surreal economic events, the US, indeed the global community of nations, is in dire need of a serious rethinking of property rights in knowledge information and natural resources if we are to avoid the litigatory nuthouse.
Professor Perelman also notes that without a cultural rethink inequalities of income, wealth and power will, in all probability, get even worse, with tragic repercussions for democracy, liberty and the production of future knowledge as well.
By investigating scores and scores of episodes from economic history, both recent and remote, Professor Perelman also shows that was has traditionally been called a free market is in fact a legal oxymoron, as well as inconsistent with what we now know from economic and political theory. As such his book holds important lessons regarding what kinds of questions we need to be asking in all seriousness regarding how our modes of organizing work and citizenship may actually stifle freedom and creativity in producing and distributing knowledge and information.
In an era when genomes, ecosystems and algorithms are being commodified and appropriated at such a frenzied pace, we would do well to ask as many questions as possible about who shall benefit and who will be burdened. All in all, a must read.
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Title: Information Feudalism by Peter Drahos, John Braithwaite ISBN: 1565848047 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Future of Ideas : The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World by Lawrence Lessig ISBN: 0375726446 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 22 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity by Siva Vaidhyanathan ISBN: 0814788076 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Private Power, Public Law : The Globalization of Intellectual Property Rights by Susan K. Sell ISBN: 052152539X Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 15 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: After the New Economy by Doug Henwood ISBN: 1565847709 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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