6 May 2017 — FAIR
Janine Jackson interviewed Kyle Wiens about copyright overreaching for the April 28, 2017, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript.
Tag: Intellectual Property
TRIPS: The Story of How Intellectual Property Became Linked to Trade (7/7)
31 October 2016 — TRNN
Professor Peter Drahos says a global effort will be needed to keep knowledge in the public domain
TRIPS: The Story of How Intellectual Property Became Linked to Trade (5/7)
28 October 2016 — TRNN
Professor Peter Drahos explains the TRIPS Agreement gave multinational corporate owners of intellectual property rights a global form of private taxing power (inc. transcript)
TRIPS: The Story of How Intellectual Property Became Linked to Trade (6/7)
30 October 2016 — TRNN
Professor Peter Drahos says the story of the trade agreement is not just a story of power, it’s also a story of clever psychology
TRIPS: The Story of How Intellectual Property Became Linked to Trade (2/7)
25 October 2016 —TRNN
The architects of this trade agreement saw great profit from controlling the building blocks of the biological and digital technologies of the future, says professor Peter Drahos (inc. transcript)
TRIPS: The Story of How Intellectual Property Became Linked to Trade (1/7)
24 October 2016 — TRNN
In this 7 part series, Professor Peter Drahos explains how multinationals from US, Europe, and Japan collaborated to create a global platform for multinationals to privatize knowledge
Copyright Maximalists Harm Authors
26 November 2013 — Falkvinge on Infopolicy
Copyright maximalists want all sorts of new laws to “help authors get paid”. Well, I’m a published author, and all their efforts to “help” cost me money. Even if we strictly limit the argument to printed books, copyright maximalists still only succeed in harming authors and publishers. This is how.
The New Dark Age 