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The Privatisation of Knowledge: Intellectual Property and the Destruction of Collective Memory

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Availability:In StockContributor:João Romeiro HermetoPublish date:7/23/2025Pages:285
Language:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9783031908651ISBN-10:3031908651UPC:9783031908651Book Category:Business & Economics, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Economics, Social, MovementsBook Topic:Theory, Critical TheorySize:8.27 x 5.83 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.1199Product ID:SCY7Q6YM2G

The Privatisation of Knowledge: Intellectual Property and the Destruction of Collective Memory

This book argues that the private appropriation of human knowledge through intellectual property gives rise to power relations, which colonise the collective mind as well as individual minds. In so doing these power relations destroy the social fabric necessary for producing and reproducing knowledge.

Besides the direct impact on political-economic relations, the privatisation of knowledge...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9783031908651ISBN-10:3031908651UPC:9783031908651Book Category:Business & Economics, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Economics, Social, MovementsBook Topic:Theory, Critical TheorySize:8.27 x 5.83 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.1199Product ID:SCY7Q6YM2G
João Romeiro Hermeto is Visiting Scholar at Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy.
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan

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