Drahos/Braithwaite - Information Feudalism Exzerpt
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- "Intellectual property rights put a price on information, thereby raising the cost of borrowing. (...) Most business, we argue, will be losers, not winners." (p. 2)
- "The grant of power that comes with intellectual property rights carries with it two great dangers. First, depending on the resource in question it may place the holder of the right, or a small group of holders, in a position of central command in a market. (...) The second and greater danger of intellectual property lies in the threat to liberty." (p. 3)
- On librarians confronted with copyright claims by publishers: "Interpreting copyright rules, especially on the complex issues raised by digital technologies, is hardly their field, so more often than not they comply." (p. 4)
- "probably less than 50 people were responsible for TRIPS." (p. 10)
- "The long-run performance of economies has much to do with efficiently defined property rights." (p. 13; Anm.: Zitat für Einstieg in Public Domain Debatte)
- "Efficiency in the case of intellectual property rights is generally thought to involve a balance between rules of appropriation and rules of diffusion. (...) Even more important though is the fact that a rights-based democratic culture allows for the formation of interest groups from business and civil society sectors that bargain over resources that matter to them." (p. 13)
- "Copyright, for example, is becoming an anti-innovation regime, used by established players like the music industry to suppress the threat of change that Napster-like innovations bring. (...) The truth is that current intellectual property regimes do a very poor job of channeling rewards (and therefore creating incentives) to creators. (...) The corporate owners of intellectual property depend heavily on the public sector and the public domain, a dependence that suggests that society should be thinking about weaker and not stronger intellectual property rights. (...) Another example of the same pervasive phenomenon of recycling public knowledge for private reward occurs in the educational sector where copyright owners uplift university-generated, publicly funded research into journals or databases and then charge universities and students for the use of them." (p. 15)
- "For the time being, many of the NGOs, businesses, individuals and professional organizations fighting for the preservation of the intellectual commons do so in isolation from each other." (p. 17)
