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This book describes how corporate powers have erected a rapacious system of intellectual property rights to confiscate the benefits of creativity in science and culture. This legal system threatens to derail both economic and scientific progress, while disrupting society and threatening personal freedom. Perelman argues that the natural outcome of this system is a world of excessive litigation, intrusive violations of privacy, the destruction system of higher education, interference with scientific research, and a lopsided distribution of income.
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About the author
MICHAEL PERELMAN is the author of Class Warfare in the Information Age and Transcending the Economy. He is Professor of Economics at California State University at Chico.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Steal This Idea
Book Subtitle: Intellectual Property and the Corporate Confiscation of Creativity
Authors: Michael Perelman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-07929-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6713-8Published: 02 December 2004
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-07929-9Published: 27 September 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IV, 265
Topics: Economic Policy, Knowledge Management, Industrial Organization, Engineering, general, International Political Economy, Political Economy/Economic Systems